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TopBraid Composer is the world’s most powerful modeling environment and an IDE for building semantic applications. Fully compliant with W3C standards, Composer offers complete support for developing, managing and testing configurations of ontologies and linked data. As part of TopBraid Suite, Composer provides a comprehensive IDE for developing semantic solutions that can integrate disparate applications and data sources.

Implemented as an Eclipse plug-in, Composer serves as a development environment for all the applications delivered using TopBraid Live™. Composer is used to develop ontology models, configure data source integration, and create semantic web services and user interfaces. Extensive Help is provided within the tool covering the following topics:

  • Editing Ontologies and RDF Data

  • Developing Semantic Web Applications

  • TopBraid Live Integration

  • Application Development Tools

  • Importing Data Sources

  • Exporting Data Sources

  • Working with Data Back Ends

  • Working with XML and Table files

  • Developing Web Data (Microdata, RDFa)

  • RDF and TopBraid

  • Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN)

  • Extending TopBraid Suite

  • Data Integration

 

Three versions are available - Maestro Edition, Standard Edition and Free Edition.

Maestro Edition

TopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition (TBC-ME) is the most comprehensive version of TopBraid Composer. It is a full IDE optimized for developing web applications and services based on the TopBraid Live platform.

TBC-ME includes its own internal web server for testing applications. It provides all of TopBraid application development tools – SPARQL Rules, SPARQL Web Pages and SPARQLMotion data processing. It also has the most comprehensive collection of data source adaptors. TBC-ME includes stand-alone demo versions of TopBraid Solutions.

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Standard and Free Editions

The Free Edition is an entry-level tool for creating and editing RDF/OWL files and running SPARQL queries over them. The Free Edition does not include Support and Maintenance. Users of the Free Edition can send their questions to the TopBraid Composer mailing list, but priority will be given to customers using the commercial editions.

The Standard Edition greatly extends the Free Edition. It provides visual editors for RDF graphs and class diagrams, including the ability to generate SPARQL "by example" in the graph view. While the Free Edition can only be used to work with RDF/OWL files, the Standard Edition can connect to database backends (such as Jena SDB/TDB, AllegroGraph, Oracle 11g and Sesame). It also provides automated conversion of XML, XSD, Excel, UML and other data sources. The Standard Edition can connect to relational databases making it possible to run SPARQL queries over relational data.

Licensing

TopBraid Composer - Maestro Edition requires a different license key than the Standard Edition. Both versions are available separately, and upgrades from Standard to Maestro Edition can be purchased. See the purchase page for pricing information.

TopBraid Composer users that do not decide to purchase Maestro can download and evaluate the full version for a 30 days evaluation period. After that time, the additional capabilities will be disabled. At any time, a different license key can be entered in the Help menu.

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Demos

SPINMap: SPARQL-based Ontology Mapping

Creating a SPARQLMotion Script

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Application development tools

SPARQLMotion

SPARQL Rules (SPIN)

SPARQL Web Pages (SWP)

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Feature Comparison

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Getting Started (PDF)

TopBraid Application Development Quickstart Guide

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TopBraid Composer Features Overview (PDF)

Accessing Composer HELP

TopBraid Composer Datasheet (PDF)

TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition Datasheet (PDF)

SPARQLMotion Tutorial (PDF)

SPARQL Rules (SPIN) Tutorial (PDF)

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What our users are saying...

"TopBraid Composer is the only commercial-ready ontology design environment that meets the needs of application developers outside of the research community. We tried many other avenues, but only TopBraid Composer gave us what we needed."
(Nova Spivack, Radar Networks)

"I seriously never thought I would consider another OWL editor but Protégé, but you have persuaded me. Good work, as usual."
(Doug Holmes, Illum Technologies)

"We have evaluated several tools for use with our ontology design classes. TopBraid Composer ended up being our top choice. The combination of ease of use, robustness, reasoning integration and consistency led us to select Composer over other available tools."
(Dave McComb, Semantic Arts)

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