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Horned-OWL: Flying Further and Faster with Ontologies
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Phillip Lord 
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Björn Gehrke ,
Martin Larralde ,
Janna Hastings ,
Filippo De Bortoli ,
James A. Overton ,
James P. Balhoff ,
Jennifer Warrender
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TGDK, Volume 2, Issue 2
Volume: TGDK, Volume 2
Journal: Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) - License:
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- Publication Date: 2024-12-18 (Submission Date: 2024-06-27, Acceptance Date: 2024-11-19)
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- Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
- Structural and Computational Biology Unit, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
- TU Dresden, Germany
- Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI), Dresden/Leipzig, Germany
- Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Acknowledgements
During the course of this work Ignazio Palmisano provided extensive help supporting our understanding of the OWL2 specification, and how the OWL API implemented it. We are very grateful; Horned-OWL would not have been possible without him.
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Phillip Lord, Björn Gehrke, Martin Larralde, Janna Hastings, Filippo De Bortoli, James A. Overton, James P. Balhoff, and Jennifer Warrender. Horned-OWL: Flying Further and Faster with Ontologies. In Special Issue on Resources for Graph Data and Knowledge. Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK), Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 9:1-9:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)
https://doi.org/10.4230/TGDK.2.2.9
Abstract
Horned-OWL is a library implementing the OWL2 specification in the Rust language. As a library, it is aimed at processes and manipulation of ontologies, rather than supporting GUI development; this is reflected heavily in its design, which is for performance and pluggability; it builds on the Rust idiom, treating an ontology as a standard Rust collection, meaning it can take direct advantage of the data manipulation capabilities of the Rust standard library. The core library consists of a data model implementation as well as an IO framework supporting many common formats for OWL: RDF, XML and the OWL functional syntax; there is an extensive test library to ensure compliance to the specification. In addition to the core library, Horned-OWL now supports a growing ecosystem: the py-horned-owl library provides a Python front-end for Horned-OWL, ideal for scripting ontology manipulation; whelk-rs provides reasoning services; and horned-bin provides a number of command line tools. The library itself is now mature, supporting the entire OWL2 specification, in addition to SWRL rules, and the ecosystem is emerging into one of the most extensive for manipulation of OWL ontologies.
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- Applied computing → Life and medical sciences
- Software and its engineering → Software libraries and repositories
- Information systems → Web Ontology Language (OWL)
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- Web Ontology Language
- OWL
- Semantic Web
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