Semantic Web toolset readied

TopQuadrant plans on Monday to announce availability of TopBraid Composer 2.0, a modeling toolset for languages pertinent to the Semantic Web.

These languages include RDF/S (Resource Description Framework Schema) and OWL (Web Ontology Language).

TopBraid Composer 2.0 is an Eclipse-based Semantic Web ontology development tool supporting multiple inference, or reasoning, engines for specific tasks. Semantic Web applications can be developed that allow rules, queries and description logic to be combined to solve business problems, TopQuadrant said.

“Semantic Web technologies are making it possible for software applications to organize and process information on the Web in ways that are making the Web ‘smarter’ for people and machines,” said Ralph Hodgson, co-founder of TopQuadrant, in a statement released by company. “The same technologies are changing the way data can be integrated and interoperated between diverse systems and databases. With these advances, enterprise-scale Semantic Web applications need a professionally engineered integrated development environment that has an open, pluggable architecture and offers state-of-the-art support for complementary tools and core Semantic Web capabilities such as reasoning.”

Featured in the product are information visualization and mash-up facilities and ontology mapping support as well as integration with XML, relational databases and other legacy data sources.

Users can configure layout of forms and other content to be user-friendly. Multiple persons can edit an ontology at the same time. Users can run SPARQL (Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language) queries.