Protégé Tutorial Schedule

What follows is a detailed schedule of the two-day Protégé Tutorial to be held in the University at Buffalo on August 11-12, 2012.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

8:30-9:00am Template:Pad Registration

9:00-9:30am Template:Pad Introduction to Ontology (Barry Smith)

9:30-10:30am Introduction to Protégé (Ron Rudnicki)

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-12:30pm Introduction to OWL (RR)

12:30-1:30pm &nbsb; Lunch

1:30-3:00pm Template:Pad Developing an Ontology in Protégé OWL - Classes and Properties (RR)

3:00-3:15pm Template:Pad Break

3:15-5:00pm Template:Spaces Developing an Ontology in Protégé OWL - Axioms and Restrictions (RR)

Sunday, August 12, 2012

9:00-9:45am Protégé Tips (RR)

9:45-10:30am Protégé Plugins (RR)

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-12:00pm Reasoning in Protégé-OWL (RR)

12:15-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:45pm SPARQL Query Language for RDF (RR)

2:45-3:00pm Break

3:00-4:15pm Other OWL Editors - TopBraid Composer (RR)

4:15-5:00pm Warnings to Ontology Developers (BS)

The tutorial is designed for participants having little to no experience in creating ontologies using computers. The goal is to provide a sufficiently broad covering of OWL, Protégé, and other semantic web technologies so that participants can be immediately productive and have an understanding of the range of technologies that they build upon to support their own projects.

Day 1 will begin with an introduction to the theory and best practices of ontology development delivered by Barry Smith. Following this introduction will be a survey of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) that can be used to express the content of an ontology. The remainder of the day will turn to the more practical matter of using Protégé to write an ontology in OWL. An example ontology will be created in this section of the course and participants will have the opportunity to acquire hands-on experience in the use of Protégé.

Day 2 will demonstrate how to enhance the capabilities of the standard version of Protégé with plugins, including the use of OWL-reasoners and the SPARQL Query Language for RDF to expand and explore ontologies. The course will conclude with a comparison of Protégé with the Free Edition of TopBraid Composer ™ and a brief overview of common problems arising from the use of OWL to express an ontology.

It will familiarize participants with:

the use of the Protégé-OWL editor to create and maintain ontologies

enhancing Protégé with plugins

OWL reasoning and the use of the query language SPARQL.

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how to navigate the latest version of the Protégé tool set, which supports the full OWL 2 standard.

Background Reading

A short but useful introductory tutorial on Protege-OWL can be found at Getting Started with Protege 4.

A more comprehensive treatment is provided in Matthew Horridge's Protege-OWL Tutorial.

Barry Smith's Ontology Page, including links to audio and video presentations, and a page containing introductory material on ontology.