Adaptable visual ontological editor ontolis

This article is devoted to the description of ONTOLIS, which is a multi-platform software tool for visual creating and editing of ontologies in adaptable way. This editor implements the original algorithm to adapt the format of the visual editor to the specific of domain ontology. It is allows to customize the visual editing environment to processing of ontologies presented in standard format (OWL, RDF) as well as in the notation of the user. ONTOLIS is adaptable to the representation of an extensible set of different types of entities' visualization features (a certain type of shape, color, etc.) and relationships between the entities by means of metadata. Business logic associated with the interpretation of ontological knowledge is completely separated from the ontology editor.