A tool for generating OWL from XSD and XML.

This tool is used in Mudrod to generate an OWL manifestation of the Directory Interchange Format (DIF) Standard, a specific set of attributes for describing Earth science data. From its conception in the late 1980’s as a way to document and exchange information on scientific data to its implementation in the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD), the DIF has evolved to serve the user community in the discovery, access and use of Earth science and related data.

• Java8

You must first install Ontmalizer as it is not yet available in Maven Central.

$ git clone https://github.com/srdc/ontmalizer.git && cd ontmalizer
$ mvn clean install

You can then install xsd2owl as follows

$ git clone https://github.com/mudrod/xsd2owl.git && cd xsd2owl
$ mvn clean install

The tool does not need to be invoked with any input parameters. By default it will look on the classpath for the dif_v10.2.xsd file which is the XSD manifestation of the DIF as mentioned above.

If however you wish to use a different file, you should invoke the tool with the parameter as below

$ java -jar target/xsd2owl-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar -h
usage: Mapper
    --inputFile <file>   A path to a local XSD file.

xsd2owl is licensed permissively under the Apache License v2.0 a copy of which is shipped with this source code.