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OntoME is an online ontology management environment. Designed for any object-oriented structured data model, OntoME makes it easy to build, manage and align your ontology and is made to allow you to work collaboratively on the same project.
You can create a project, manage it by adding members and rights.
You can create your own namespace and then the classes and properties you need.
You can align classes and properties with the CIDOC CRM or any other ontology to make them interoperable.
You can create an application profile containing classes and properties from different namespaces and connect it to your favourite virtual research environment or your home made database.
The concept of namespaces is at the core of OntoME. A namespace refers to a set of classes and properties designed to accommodate terms from the same domain. It ensures that all the identifiers within it have unique names so that they can be easily identified.
OntoME is organised between menus and tabs. You can select an entity in a menu and then discover its details in the different tabs with each time a “summary” tab that summarizes the main points.
OntoME is provided with the last published version of CIDOC CRM and its extensions. Without creating an account, you can browse and learn the CIDOC CRM through the application.
You can access other classes and properties from the namespaces menu but if you want to display them in your lists or create you own classes and properties you need to create an account.
You are automatically logged in after creating your account.
If you forgot your password :
Once logged in, you'll see an additional menu appearing : “Dashboard”. This menu displays your account and application preferences. It contains several tabs.
In this tab, you can check and edit your personal information. Click on the pen icon to the right to open the edit form.
This tab lists the projects you have created or of which you are a member.
By default you're a member of the Public Project which displays the classes and properties of the CIDOC CRM and its extensions.
Here you can activate the project you want to work on. The current active project is displayed at the top right of the screen.
Activating a project allows you to automatically select namespaces associated with that project. You can only create classes, properties and relations or modify those that exist in the ongoing namespace managed by the project you have activated.
In this tab, you can manage the namespaces you want to display in the application.
As OntoME hosts multiple namespaces, you may not want to display all of them. By default, the application automatically selects the namespaces managed and referenced by your current active project and its associated profiles.
You can deselect any of them or select others. Only one version of a single root namespace can be selected.
The classes and properties of the namespaces selected in this tab are displayed in the class and property lists and in the class tree.
You can return to the default selection by clicking on the reset button.
Note: selected namespaces are stored in your user configuration and are retained from one session to the next.
This tab lists the profiles created as part of the projects of which you are a member.
This tab lists the comments you have posted, sorted by entity and section commented on.
This list displays all classes belonging to the namespaces selected in the “my current namespaces” tab of your dashboard.
The tree structure allows you to graphically display the complete class hierarchy from the namespaces selected in the “my current namespaces” tab of your dashboard.
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The menu directly displays the list of all properties created or imported into OntoME with their domain and range classes, quantifiers and namespaces to which they belong.
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The menu directly displays the list of namespaces created or imported into OntoME.
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The menu directly displays the list of projects.
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This menu directly displays the list of profiles with their project to which they belong.
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This menu links to this page
After login, select the ongoing namespace to which you want to add a class.
In the “Classes” tab of the ongoing namespace, check first the class you want to create does not already exist. If this is the case, click on the blue “Add” button to open the add form.
Click on the “Save” button, your class is created!
Select a class and switch to edit mode by clicking the large green button on the upper right.
Check first the property you want to create does not already exist by searching the property list.
If this is the case, select the class to which you want to add a property. Note: you can only add a property to a class that is part of a namespace managed by a project you're belonging to.
In the “Properties” tab, switch to edit mode by clicking the green button on the upper right.
Click on the required blue “Add” button to open the add form for an ongoing property or an incoming one:
Click on the “Save” button, your property is created!
Select a property and switch to edit mode by clicking the large green button on the upper right.
Select the class/property to which you want to add an existing parent class/property. Note: you can only add a hierarchical association to a parent class/property that is part of a namespace managed by a project you're belonging to.
In the “Hierarchy” tab, switch to edit mode by clicking the green button on the upper right.
Click on the blue “Add” button to open the hierarchical association form with a parent entity (corresponds to rdfs:subclassOf/subpropertyOf):
Click on the “Save” button, your hierarchical association is created!