semAuth in 200 words

Philosophy: The tool semAuth combines an ontology editor with a website template engine. Knuth's idea of literate programming is revived in the semantic web context: A SKOS tree or a fully fledged ontology (including rules) is extracted from it's own documentation.

Basic idea: The overall knowledge representation makes use of the mindmapping method. Rich content nodes represent chunks of inline text, nodes with one single char like "h", "p" or "-" represent html blocks. Semantic icons like (C), (i) or (=>) mark a node being a class, an instance or a domain/range. Short chains (tree paths) of icon tagged nodes represent RDFS triples. Text structure and semantic icons can be altered without loosing tree information: This allows for a seamless transgression from early to late stages of ontology engineering.

Technology: Semauth.xsl tranlates freemind .mm files in a batch process into a buch of static files. We recommend freeplane.sf.net as frontend.

Busines model: Ontology Engineering is an expert task - even with mindmaps. Our customers get version 0.8 for free as a productivity tool. Version 0.6 is published under GPL Licence on sourceforge.