K.: Populous: A Tool for Populating Templates for OWL Ontologies

Abstract. We present Populous, a tool for gathering content with which to populate an ontology. Domain experts need to add content, that is of-ten repetitive in its form, but without having to tackle the underlying ontological representation. Populous presents users with a table based form in which columns are constrained to take values from particular ontologies; the user can select a concept from an ontology via its mean-ingful label to give a value for a given entity attribute. Populated tables are mapped to patterns that can then be used to automatically generate the ontology’s content. Populous’s contribution is in the knowledge gath-ering stage of ontology development. It separates knowledge gathering from the conceptualisation and also separates the user from the stan-dard ontology authoring environments. As a result, Populous can allow knowledge to be gathered in a straight-forward manner that can then be used to do mass production of ontology content