ODESeW is no longer being used or maintained by our group.

ODESeW (Semantic Web Portal based on WebODE platform) is an ontology-based application that automatically generates and manages a knowledge portal for Intranets and Extranets. ODESeW is built inside the WebODE ontology engineering workbench that provide the following functions:

• Knowledge modelling, by means of an ontology development platform that integrates several ontology development services. As the knowledge portal will be used on the web, is highly recommend to use an ontology server (and not a stand-alone ontology editor) that allows to build cooperatively the ontologies as well as to access the ontologies through the web. The use of an ontology server as a basic infrastructure over which the knowledge portal is built will ease the management in a sync way of the assets with respect to the ontology changes. From a software perspective, the knowledge portal will benefit from the present and further services provided by the ontology server.
• Content editing/provision by means of ontology instances editing. ODESeW allows inserting, updating and removing class instances, their attributes and relation instances, in multiple interlinked ontologies and with different editing permissions for the portal users. As part of the instance editing functions, ODESeW can be also used as a document management tool, which allows handling electronic documents.
• Content presentation/visualization by means of highly-configurable user-defined visualizations of ontology classes, relations and instances, and with different browsing permissions for the portal users. The ontology is used for indexing the knowledge assets and for browsing them accordingly. The ontology provides structure on this content that helps the user find knowledge assets. The content stored in the portal can be accessed dynamically with menus automatically generated from ontologies according to the user's permission, visualizing differently the different types of information stored in the knowledge assets; an example is the shallow natural language generation functions for Extranet users.  The knowledge portal also provides annotated markup of its assets in RDF(S), DAML+OIL and OWL.
• Content search and querying functions, based on a hybrid approach based on ontologies and keywords. The content search and querying modules use the WebODE API for accessing and querying the ontologies content.
• Easy web site administration services, which allow managing the knowledge portal users, editing and visualization permissions, and several other portal management needs. Such services are only accessed by the users belonging to the knowledge portal administration group.

As an important advantage of ODESeW over other similar Knowledge portals is the automatic synchronization between the contents of the portal and the ontologies in which it is based. So, if an ontology is modified with the WebODE ontology editor, the changes will be automatically seen in the knowledge portal either for ontology conceptualization itself or for its instances.

For further information, you can visit the website of ODESeW.