Ontology Browser allows you to navigate around OWL ontologies and Linked Open Data online.

Try It

Try browsing one of these examples:

• pizza ontology
• Ordnance Survey's Manchester
• BBC elephants

Or, load one of your own ontologies then add a link on your own pages to your ontology for others to browse:

http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/browser/ontologies/?action=load&clear=true&uri=http://www.example.org/ontology.owl

Features

• Load content from anywhere on the web
• Browse OWL ontologies and/or RDF Linked Open Data together in one interface
• All content created dynamically created on the fly
• Dynamically load additional resources in as you go
• Fully indexed and linked content, split down by module and entity type
• Simple support for images, sounds and locations (other media by request)
• Expandable class and property hierarchies
• Find entities by name with autocomplete
• DL queries using full Manchester Syntax with autocompletion and parsing
• Permalinking for sharing pages with friends
• REST(ish) API with xml/html results (work in progress)

Note only RDF that can be loaded into an OWL2 model (the OWLAPI) is supported

Documentation

• Getting started with the ontology browser
• Release Notes
• Install the browser on your own server (or locally).

Level of Support

Since CO-ODE finished work on the browser has been mostly in my spare time. With this in mind I will make a good attempt at helping people as much as I can.

Acknowledgements

Initial development was funded by JISC as part of the CO-ODE project.

The project grew out of OWLDoc - static OWL HTML generator.

Ontology Browser uses OWL API developed at The University of Manchester.

Ontology Browser also uses

• JQuery javascript framework
• BSN autosuggest
• gaphu.js

all code copyright © 2007 The University Of Manchester