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Convention-based Ontology Generation System

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Convention-based Ontology Generation System

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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.

Output Formats

Publishable formats include:

  • XML Schema
  • OWL 2 (RDF Schema)
  • OMG's UML Normative XMI 2.4.2
  • OMG's UML XMI 2.5 with diagram exchange
  • Sphinx HTML documentation and visualizations
  • JSON Schema
  • C# class library with JSON and XML serialization
  • GraphQL schema language

Upcoming formats include:

  • Class libraries for other languages

Platform

COGS runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS on the .NET Core 2.0 platform.

Legal and Licensing

COGS is licensed under the MIT license.

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