Convention-based Ontology Generation System

(Windows) (Linux)

The Convention-based Ontology Generation System (COGS) gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build ontologies that enables a clean separation of concerns and gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. COGS includes many features that enable fast, Test Driven Development for publishing sophisticated models in a variety of formats.

COGS is for domain experts and groups who value ease of collaboration and low technical barriers for participation.

Highlighted projects using COGS

SDTL - Structured Data Transformation Language
- https://gitlab.com/c2metadata/sdtl-cogs [cogs]
- https://ddialliance.org/products/sdtl/1.0
DDI Lifecycle 3.4
- https://github.com/ddialliance/ddimodel [cogs]
- https://ddialliance.org/Specification/DDI-Lifecycle/3.3/

Output Formats

Publishable formats include:

XML Schema
JSON Schema
OWL 2 (RDF Schema)
ShEx
SHACL
LinkML
OMG's UML Normative XMI 2.4.2
OMG's UML XMI 2.5 with Diagrams and Diagram Exchange
Sphinx HTML documentation and visualizations
C# class library with JSON and XML serialization
SVG and dot visualizations
GraphQL schema language

Upcoming formats include:

Class libraries for other languages

Platform

COGS runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS on the .NET Core 6 platform.

https://www.microsoft.com/net/core/

Documentation

Quick starts, Modelers Guide, and technical documentation is available.

http://cogsdata.org/docs

Installation and download

COGS can be installed as a dotnet global tool from nuget

dotnet tool install -g cogs

Development versions can be installed from the appveyor nuget feed

dotnet tool install -g --add-source https://ci.appveyor.com/nuget/cogs/ cogs

Outputs Diagram

Legal and Licensing

COGS is licensed under the MIT license.

Colectica/cogs