Ontology Diff Tool

Description

Tool to compare two ontologies and to create a diff of both ontologies. The tool creates various types of diff files:

  • ADDED_AXIOMS ... all axioms which are present in ontology B, but not in ontology A
  • COMMON_AXIOMS ... all axioms which are present in both ontologies
  • COMPLETE_DIFF ... all axioms which are present in (ontology A but not in B) & (ontology B but not in A)
  • DELETED_AXIOMS ... all axioms which are present in ontology A, but not in ontology B

Example & Usage

The OntologyDiff Tool offers a command line interface support following parameters:

    
usage: Ontology Comparator
 -f,--format <format>     ontology format. 'OWLXMLOntologyFormat'
                          (default),'ManchesterOWLSyntax'
 -i1,--ontologyA <file>   use given file as ontology A
 -i2,--ontologyB <file>   use given file as ontology B
 -out,--output <file>     use given output file
 -v,--verbose             turn on verbose mode

An exmaple usage can be ...

 
java -jar ontologydiff-1.0.1.jar -i1 /path/to/file/in1.owl -i2 /path/to/file/in2.owl -out /path/to/file/out.owl -v

The output of the program will look similar to this ...

 
INFO  OntologyComparator - pictureService_process.owl ---[ADDED_AXIOMS]---> pictureService_process_updateImageMagick.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - Ontology successfully saved at ADDED_AXIOMS_picuterService_dependencies_diff.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - pictureService_process.owl ---[COMMON_AXIOMS]---> pictureService_process_updateImageMagick.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - Ontology successfully saved at COMMON_AXIOMS_picuterService_dependencies_diff.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - pictureService_process.owl ---[COMPLETE_DIFF]---> pictureService_process_updateImageMagick.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - Ontology successfully saved at COMPLETE_DIFF_picuterService_dependencies_diff.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - pictureService_process.owl ---[DELETED_AXIOMS]---> pictureService_process_updateImageMagick.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - Ontology successfully saved at DELETED_AXIOMS_picuterService_dependencies_diff.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - pictureService_process.owl ---[VARIANT_B]---> pictureService_process_updateImageMagick.owl
INFO  OntologyComparator - Ontology successfully saved at VARIANT_B_picuterService_dependencies_diff.owl

Download & Licensing

This tool is licensend under the Apache License Version 2.0. Show License Hide License

Copyright (c) 2013/2014 Verein zur Foerderung der IT-Sicherheit in Oesterreich (SBA). The work has been developed in the TIMBUS Project and the above-mentioned are Members of the TIMBUS Consortium. TIMBUS is supported by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme for research and technological development and demonstration activities (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 269940.
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The tool is available for download here.

Requirements

Since the tool is already packaged, you only has to ensure that Java 1.6 or higher is installed on your system.