Description
EDDY apparently does not provide the possibility to add notes for human readers. This is a restriction, compared to e.g. UML editors such as Visual Paradigm, but I think it is healthy - every valuable comment should get into a rdfs:comment or other annotation.
However, making annotations appear on the surface (the graphical representation) when needed, would be a real plus.
Motivation
Productivity is my concern here - I switched from Protégé to EDDY because I get a one-step, automated, clean output RDF/OWL file. For documentation purposes I'd also appreciate a one-step process from the graphic editor to PNG, not having to repeatedly add comments in callouts and inevitably produce inconsistencies.
Note: the switch from Protégé + Visual Paradigm (for sketching and visualisation of final results) to EDDY + GRAPHOLSCAPE probably represents a factor 2 in productivity gain, in my case (relatively complex ontology, frequent re-designs, need to share the rationale with an audience)
Example Use Cases
See for instance Sparx Enterprise Architect : right button menu allows to generate comments from object properties, which the user can select. The comments should appear in the usual style (maybe linked to the object by a dashed line plus the annotation property name, such as rdfs:comment)
Description
EDDY apparently does not provide the possibility to add notes for human readers. This is a restriction, compared to e.g. UML editors such as Visual Paradigm, but I think it is healthy - every valuable comment should get into a rdfs:comment or other annotation.
However, making annotations appear on the surface (the graphical representation) when needed, would be a real plus.
Motivation
Productivity is my concern here - I switched from Protégé to EDDY because I get a one-step, automated, clean output RDF/OWL file. For documentation purposes I'd also appreciate a one-step process from the graphic editor to PNG, not having to repeatedly add comments in callouts and inevitably produce inconsistencies.
Note: the switch from Protégé + Visual Paradigm (for sketching and visualisation of final results) to EDDY + GRAPHOLSCAPE probably represents a factor 2 in productivity gain, in my case (relatively complex ontology, frequent re-designs, need to share the rationale with an audience)
Example Use Cases
See for instance Sparx Enterprise Architect : right button menu allows to generate comments from object properties, which the user can select. The comments should appear in the usual style (maybe linked to the object by a dashed line plus the annotation property name, such as rdfs:comment)