Note: this page is here for historical and sentimental reasons.
Find the updated documentation here.
If you use the OWL API for any work that is published, we would be grateful if you could cite the following publication.
Matthew Horridge, Sean Bechhofer. The OWL API: A Java API for OWL Ontologies. Semantic Web Journal 2(1), Special Issue on Semantic Web Tools and Systems, pp. 11-21, 2011. PDF
Other publications describing earlier versions of the OWL API.
Matthew Horridge, Sean Bechhofer. The OWL API: A Java API for Working with OWL 2 Ontologies. OWLED 2009, 6th OWL Experienced and Directions Workshop, Chantilly, Virginia, October 2009. PDF
Matthew Horridge, Sean Bechhofer, Olaf Noppens. Igniting the OWL 1.1 Touch Paper: The OWL API. OWLED 2007, 3rd OWL Experienced and Directions Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007. PDF
Sean Bechhofer, Phillip Lord, Raphael Volz. Cooking the Semantic Web with the OWL API. 2nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC, Sanibel Island, Florida, October 2003. PDF