Protégé Tutorial Schedule

Friday, August 10, 2012

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8:30-9:00am

Registration

9:00-9:30am

Installing and Configuring Protégé-OWL

9:30-10:30am

Introduction to Ontology (Barry Smith)

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45-12:30pm

Introduction to OWL

12:30-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30-3:00pm

Developing an Ontology in Protégé OWL - Classes and Properties

3:00-3:15pm

Break

3:15-5:00pm

Developing an Ontology in Protégé OWL - Axioms and Restrictions

Saturday, August 11, 2012

9:00-9:45am Protégé Tips

9:45-10:30am Protégé Plugins

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45-12:00pm Reasoning in Protégé-OWL

12:15-1:15pm Lunch

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

2:45-3:00pm Break

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

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

Course Description

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 comprehenisve 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.