

![0_image_0.png](0_image_0.png)

in Populous is familiar to users who have already used a spreadsheet application.

Populous should lower the entry requirements for domain experts to contribute to ontology development projects.

The release of Populous as presented is an early version; there remains many possible additions, some of which are:
1. Populous can handle multiple values in a cell that maps to conjunctions of properties. Extensions to Populous such that some minor syntax can be used to extend the ability to use OWL's syntax would be useful. In particular, being able to specify numbers for cardinality and numbers and other literals for datatype properties.

2. As already described, Populous uses a row centric model. We aim to use M2 to enable more variety in how tables are mapped to templates or patterns.

For example, only portions of columns may be required to be mapped to certain axiom patterns and M2enables this sort of mapping. OPPL and M2 together should cover our mapping needs.

3. Populous currently gathers domain knowledge for the ontology, but not about the ontology. We aim to extend Populous to support various metadata such as editorial metadata and definitional metadata etc.

4. Populous is a single user application. Making Populous collaborative such that contributors may collectively add material to the same spreadsheet.

5. Feedback from the generated ontology to fix or extend data in Populous is currently *ad hoc*. A tighter coupling of this feedback cycle, without having