Posh - The prolog OWL shell

Abstract

Two of the most common ways of processing and manipulating OWL ontologies are through an ontology editing environment (e.g. Protege or TopBraid) or via a programmatic interface, such as the OWL API. A complementary method is to use an OWL-aware command line shell. Posh, the Prolog OWL Shell is an interactive toplevel read-eval-print-loop interface that provides powerful capabilities for querying and transforming ontologies. It includes a bridge to the OWLAPI and to multiple OWL reasoners, and allows a mixture of closed-world rule-based querying on top of open world reasoning. It also provides an interface to POPL, the Prolog Ontology Processing Language. Posh is available from http://blipkit. wordpress.com/posh.