Introduction to Protégé

Course description

PHI 398 LEC SMI Lecture Spec Topics: Introduction to Ontology

FALL 2012

VENUE: NSC Room 215, University at Buffalo, North Campus

This course is an introduction to the Protége 2000 ontology editor, details of which can be found here: http://protege.stanford.edu/. It will begin with a brief introduction to ontology building, and to the use and importance of ontologies, with examples from medicine and defense. This will be following by an introduction to the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The bulk of the course will consist of an interactive introduction to the use of Protége 2000 in building an ontology.

No background in the use of computer languages and programming is presupposed. All sessions will be highly interactive.

• The initial meeting of this class will take place on the weekend of August 11-12, 2012. Presentation at this weekend event is a requirement for this class.

Further details will be available on the course wiki at http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Introduction_to_Prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9