TopBraid EDG 8.5 

1. Ontology power‑ups (OWL Support) – Complete round‑trip interoperability: import legacy OWL files, create new OWL classes in‑app, and model richer equivalence / hierarchy relationships—all without leaving EDG.
2. EDG Copilot for Linking – A cleaner “Problems & Suggestions” UI, term‑level previews, and one‑tap “apply all” actions let AI match and map assets in seconds.
3. Medical Term Management usability – Automatic diff reports when vocabularies update, one‑click resolutions, and full provenance metadata keep third‑party terms accurate and audit‑ready.
4. PolicyPilot – Pre‑built GDPR knowledge graph and instant business glossary generation from any doc using generative AI import slash setup time for compliance and data catalog use cases.

Together, these upgrades cut manual effort, tighten governance, and speed time‑to‑value across your ontology, vocabulary, linking, and policy workflows.

Expanded OWL Ontology Support in TopBraid EDG 8.5

TopBraid EDG 8.5 introduces powerful new enhancements for teams working with OWL ontologies, making it easier than ever to bring OWL-based models into EDG, extend them collaboratively, and integrate them into SHACL-driven workflows. 

• Import OWL Ontologies into EDG
  Easily ingest existing OWL files to create new EDG collections or enrich existing ones. This streamlines the onboarding of legacy ontologies and open standards.
• Support for Equivalent and Superclass Relationships
  Leverage OWL-style class definitions using equivalentClass and subClassOf properties (Manchester syntax support), enabling more expressive modeling directly within EDG.
• Create New OWL Classes
  Authors can now define OWL classes from scratch, giving ontologists the freedom to build OWL-native models without leaving the EDG interface.

Medical Term Management – Effortless Vocabulary Change Management

• Link to documentation

When you import a new release of any third‑party controlled vocabulary, EDG automatically flags every difference:

• Added, changed, and deleted terms
• Invalid references to terms you already use

You’ll see a clear summary and can act in one click—remove obsolete terms, map them to a new parent, or accept additions wholesale—so your curated term groups stay clean and compliant without manual hunting.

EDG Copilot for Linking — Link assets at light‑speed

Harnessing AI and our built‑in vector database, EDG Copilot now streamlines cross‑collection linking with a cleaner, action‑first workflow:

• Instant access to “Problems & Suggestions.” One click takes you straight to the panel that highlights missing, conflicting, or suggested links.
• Term‑level transparency. Hover or expand any suggestion to see full term metadata and context before you decide.
• “Apply‑All” magic. Accept every validated match in a single tap, turning a long checklist into a completed mapping in seconds.

The result: fewer manual look‑ups, clearer decisions, and faster knowledge‑graph alignment across your enterprise.

PolicyPilot

Instant Business Glossary

Turn any policy, report, or requirements doc into a living business glossary—automatically. Drop in your text and EDG calls the OpenAI API behind the scenes to:

• Detect key entities and relationships in seconds
• Generate clear, draft definitions for each term
• Populate a starter glossary directly inside EDG, ready for refinement

Result: your data stewards leapfrog the blank‑page phase, accelerating knowledge‑graph creation and speeding time‑to‑insight across the enterprise.

Accelerate GDPR compliance with one click 

The full General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been pre-modeled in RDF and is ready to import directly into your TopBraid EDG instance. Simply load the knowledge graph in seconds to:

• Link GDPR articles to your data assets effortlessly
• Automate compliance processes without manual parsing or modeling
• Enable your data scientists to query GDPR requirements alongside your data, directly from their working environment

Result: Quickly map your data assets to GDPR obligations, empowering your teams to maintain compliance with ease and speed—eliminating tedious manual work and reducing risk across the enterprise

For detailed upgrade instructions, see the 8.5 Upgrade Guide in the customer portal.