Widoco

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Wizard for documenting ontologies. WIDOCO is a step by step generator of HTML templates with the documentation of your ontology. It uses the LODE environment to create part of the template.

Overview

WIDOCO (Wizard for DOCumenting Ontologies) is a tool that helps users publish and create customized documentation for their ontology automatically. It offers a GUI interface that guides users through a series of steps to generate an enriched documentation of their ontology.

Features

  • Automatic documentation: WIDOCO automatically generates documentation for the terms in your ontology, based on the LODE framework by Silvio Peroni.
  • Massive metadata extraction and support: WIDOCO enhances your ontology documentation by extracting metadata from your ontology annotations. You can customize your documentation with logos, images, and edited content of sections by editing the metadata.
  • Automatic annotation in JSON-LD snippets: WIDOCO automatically annotates the HTML produced with JSON-LD snippets.
  • Provenance page: WIDOCO allows the association of a provenance page that includes the history of your vocabulary, compliant with W3C PROV-O.
  • Guidelines for document structure: WIDOCO provides guidelines on the main sections that your document should have and how to complete them.
  • Integration with diagram creators: WIDOCO integrates with diagram creators like WebVOWL to visualize the ontology.
  • Changelog generation: WIDOCO automatically generates a changelog of differences between the current and previous versions of the ontology, based on Bubastis.

Summary

WIDOCO is a powerful tool for generating documentation for ontologies. It offers a range of features, including automatic documentation, metadata extraction, annotation in JSON-LD snippets, provenance page generation, guidelines for document structure, integration with diagram creators, and changelog generation. With its easy-to-use GUI interface, WIDOCO simplifies the process of creating customized and enriched documentation for your ontology.

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Documentation

Documentation themes are built specifically for writing technical and product documentation. They are normally written and maintained in Markdown. The often include a navigation menu, search bar, clear headings, semantic document structure and clean typography.