We’ve released the version 0.6 of our distributed knowledge engineering tool OntoWiki. We re-engineered most part of it to support a more flexible architecture with themes and plugins. OntoWiki is based now on the Zend Framework and requires PHP 5.2 (because of the new __toString() behavior).
This is the first stand-alone version of OntoWiki. It still includes Powl but we decided to release both tools separately to provide a more user-friendly installation and setup process.
Changes in this release includes a themeable interface, a guided installation, basic access control at model scope and some bugfixes in the class tree, the map tab and the auto suggestion feature.
May 6, 2007 - 5:27 pm
Only for version 5.2 of PHP? That kills alot of potential users. Would it not be prudent to simply create a function similar to toString so that everyone can enjoy this product?
The foundation I work with has been looking for something like this for years but to maintain existing products they can’t upgrade to PHP 5.2, and are therefore left out of the loop.
Your product truly has the potential to change the way research data is made available to the public; in a concise intelligent manner.
Please if anyone can port back this software to be at least PHP 4 compatible, would be very much appreciated.
May 6, 2007 - 5:48 pm
Hi Warren, we plan to do downgrade the requirements to PHP 5.1. This is
scheduled for OntoWiki 0.6.1 (see http://aksw.org/Projects/OntoWiki/Roadmap). Because of RAP and Zend (the libs we use), we cant go below PHP 5.1.