[Attempto] Aceview+Protege viability for Standards Writing?

[Kaarel Kaljurand]

Hi Luke,

I'm not sure if anybody has tried to use ACE View to model all of an
ISO standard. It is likely that you will be able to use ACE View to
build the backbone ontology for the standard, along with some rules,
but most of the content of the standard will have to remain in
unrestricted natural language or could possibly be converted to a
fragment of ACE that ACE View does not support. ACE View supports only
the fragment that maps to OWL and SWRL.

ACE View as a tool has not been maintained in the last couple of
years. It seems to work in the latest Protege but I haven't tested all
the aspects.

Best,
Kaarel

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:41 AM, luke wallace <lukewallace1990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a standards document (Think ISO standards, or ASTM specifications)
> with lots of requirements, rules, and conditions and limits applying to
> those rules and requirements. I want to model all of this in Aceview using
> Protege mainly for the purpose of revealing the hierarchy and order all of
> these messy rules have behind the scenes. I also want to use it to create a
> more logically structured and unambigious version of the standard using the
> completed ontology as a reference. It would also be nice to possibly query
> the ontology and get answers but that's not my goal.
>
> I have been reading the Aceview+Protege examples provided by the attempto
> website at http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/aceview/examples/ and see a lot of
> comments saying "experimental" "doesn't do this, doesn't do that yet"
> "creates errors if you do this or word it this way" and it's making me think
> that maybe this technology isn't mature enough yet for something like this.
>
> Can someone knowledgeable tell me if I'm barking up the wrong tree?