About the project

As ontology development becomes more widespread and the Web Ontology Language, OWL, gathers interest from more and more communities, it is vital that tools that enable the technology develop along a user-oriented path.

The CO-ODE project aims to provide support for communities interested in OWL by developing materials, enhancing tools, and looking at some of the theoretical problems to help form usable solutions before big problems arise.

The success of this project will be measured by the increase in use of these tools by all users, from beginners to domain experts and knowledge engineers.

We work in collaboration with members of the Protégé team, through development of the OWL editor and encouraging its use through additional plugins, tutorial material, workshops and contact with the community.

The research team is based in the Bio Health Informatics Group at The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science.

If your first question is what's an ontology? then it might be an idea to check out our learning resources or future tutorial events.