tawny.protege

This is a bridge between Protege-nrepl and Tawny-OWL. It enables the use of Tawny-OWL through a nrepl launched from Protege. Any ontologies created or changed in Tawny will be displayed, live, in Protege.

Currently, the release version of Protege and Tawny use different versions of the OWL API. This means that a specialized build of Protege is necessary.

Usage

The protege-nrepl plugin reads a init.clj file. This is a good place to force loading of tawny-protege. My full init.clj looks like this:

;; force loading of tawny
(cemerick.pomegranate/add-dependencies
   :coordinates '[[uk.org.russet/tawny-protege "1.0"]]
   :repositories (merge cemerick.pomegranate.aether/maven-central
                   {"clojars" "http://clojars.org/repo"}))

;; and monkey patch the thing
(require 'tawny.protege-nrepl)

;; initing the dialog takes ages -- so auto connect
(dosync (ref-set protege.model/auto-connect-on-default true))

Currently Tawny uses the OWL API version 3.4.8 and depends on (one!) feature introduced in it, while Protege uses version 3.4.2. So, if you use tawny inside Protege errors will occasionally happen (if you use datatypes essentially). You can now build against the development head of Protege on github: https://github.com/protegeproject/protege.

I have built an unsupported, pre-release version of Protege with protege-nrepl (and protege-tawny) installed, which is accessible from here. Please don't ask the Protege team for help with this! This should be a stop-gap solution; we hope that protege-nrepl will work in a standard Protege install.

License

The contents of this file are subject to the LGPL License, Version 3.0.

Copyright (C) 2012, 2013, Newcastle University

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.