VocBench is a feature-rich RDF editor and workflow manager supporting a distributed editing framework for thesauri, glossaries, authority lists, code lists, taxonomies and classifications. Here are a few highlights:

Features and Functions

• Search for concepts and relations
• Add, update and delete concepts and relations
• Navigate, open, close and browse hierarchies
• Tab-based viewing of concept attributes
• Support to concurrent, distributed usage
• Able to manage and display LARGE schemes (AGROVOC has 32,000+ concepts in up to 22 languages, about 6 million triples)
• Flexible concept management with states such as proposed, validated, published, deprecated and more
• Editorial workflow supporting customizable, ad-hoc user roles and rights configurable per language
• Search, filter and view all changes made by users and save those settings for future sessions
• Track of editorial changes and authorship of those changes
• Full support for UTF-8
• Store multiple concept schemes
• Generate statistical reports regarding loaded concept schemes.

Architecture

• Java-based rich-client web application
• Uses Google’s GWT framework
• Search handled by Apache Lucene
• 1x use Protégé 3 to handle storage, while soon to be released v2 uses OWLART, a plug-in based RDF manager that supports most major triple-stores.