User Interface Overview

The OWL Perpective consists of the following main panels:

In addition, the OWL Perpective is characterized by many useful user-interaction features that are described below.

Navigation

If a resource is selected in either the Ontology Navigator or the Individuals panel, it will be loaded in the Entity Properties panel. From there you can navigate to other resources by pressing the Control (Ctrl) key (the entity becomes highlighted in blue and gets underlined to indicate that it is a clickable hyper link) and clicking its name.

OWL CTRL Click Feature

Autocomplete

The OWL Perpective also features a useful autocomplete function. Autocomplete involves the OWL Perpective predicting a word or phrase that you want to type without you actually typing it completely. It is available in all text boxes while in edit mode. You can start autocomplete by clicking Ctrl+spacebar on your keyboard or by simply starting to type; autocomplete starts within a second.

In the example below, the user typed "abs" and the toolkit proposes a list of classes that contain this substring. On the right, it also shows a tooltip with the complete URI, and also the rdfs:comment for the selected entities, in this case "p2:abstract".
Note – Notice that autocomplete has an adaptive suggestion functionality, that is, it only shows suggestions that match your input.

OWL Perpective Autocomplete

Entity Label Mode

The labels that are displayed for entities in the different fields of the user interface depend on the selected Entity Label Mode. The "ns"-toolbar icon (cf. screen shot below) lets you choose between four different modes:

OWL