FOIS'24 - Ontology Engineering Session

A Textual Syntax and Toolset for Well-Founded Ontologies
Matheus L. Coutinho, João Paulo Almeida, Tiago Prince Sales and Giancarlo Guizzardi

Idea behind Tonto:
- Easier to read syntax, like programming language
- Text-based specification to cope with git-like mechanisms
- Dual-channel processing theory Textual+Visual= Enhanced comprehension

- Better version control - Easier modularization Tonto Editor:
- java-like syntax
- you can declare concepts, properties and relations
- you can change the text specification and have a visual (diagramatic) view of the changes in the ontology
- they use colors for the different types of elements (stereotypes), both in the text and in the diagram
- you can use some validators: e.g., a semantic-motivator syntatic validator
- they created a package manager to support modularization

Integration with OntoUML server and ontouml-js
- JSON generation cmpliant to OntoUML Schema
- importing JSON to Visual Paradigm
- Importing JSON to Tonto
- Model validation
- Transformation to UFO-based OWL.