Protégé Tutorial Schedule
Friday, August 10, 2012
9:00-9:15am Course Introduction 9:15-9:30am 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 course is designed for participants having little to no experience in creating ontologies in OWL. The goal of the course 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. The second day of the course 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 ComposerTM and a brief overview of common problems arising from the use of OWL to express an ontology.
The course introduces the use of the Protégé-OWL editor to create ontologies. The content of the course includes an introduction to ontologies, basic use of Protégé, enhancing Protégé with plugins, owl reasoning and the use of the query language SPARQL. The course is designed for participants having no prior experience in ontology development or use of OWL editors. During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports the full OWL 2 standard. Protege is the most popular and widely used ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!.
The Protégé-OWL Course provides an introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a theoretical standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on use of the Protégé platform. The course also emphasizes how to use OWL ontologies, and other semantic technologies like SWRL, to build semantic applications with examples from real-world use cases.
