Populous For Mac

Populous is a free and open-source application that allows you to build ontologies from simple spreadsheet like templates.

Populous can be of use when a repeating ontology design pattern emerges that needs to be populated en-mass.

Populous comes with a simple interface, similar to that of a spreadsheet, so that templates can be populated by users with little or no knowledge of ontology development.

When the templates are populated, Populous lets you transform the data into an OWL ontology using a expressive pattern language.

The spreadsheets can be transformed into OWL/RDF using the Ontology Pre-Processing Language v2 (OPPL). OPPL 2 is a powerful scripting language for generating and manipulating OWL axioms.

Populous provides a wizard like interface in the "Tools" menu to map spreadsheet data to variables in OPPL patterns.

Detailed instructions on how to install and use the Populous utility on your Mac are available HERE.

Populous is a cross-platform utility capable of running on any operating system that comes with Java support (e.g. Mac OS X, Windows, Linux).