Browse our Registry of tools. featuring tools for information management categorized as follows:

Metadata/Cataloguing Tools

Metadata tools used for creating metadata for various types of resources. This category includes tools for entering and editing metadata, and utilities for processing, extracting, validating, and viewing metadata. Some of these tools allow for metadata to be served up in different formats, such as XML, RDF, XHTML, ISO2709 etc. Some tools are based on established metadata standards while others produce metadata based specifically on local application profiles.

Ontology Tools

When working on an ontology project, one of the steps is to find a suitable ontology creation and maintenance tool. There are a number of ontology editors currently available to help in the process of ontology development. Some tools can help to acquire, organize, edit, visualize and maintain domain knowledge and aid in the building of an ontology. Ontologies are available in different formats: XML/RDF, OWL-Full, OWL-Lite, etc. Most tools offer the possibility to import and export ontologies in various formats, as required by the specific implementation/applications.

Thesaurus Tools

A number of commercial thesaurus management tools are currently available on the market. However, this website features only the freely available tools.

Miscellaneous Tools

Tools such as validators, parsers, etc.