Ontology Design Patterns and Problems: Practical Ontology Engineering using Protege-OWL

Tutorial at the Third International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004)

November 7th, 2004

Alan Rector, Guus Schreiber, Natalya F. Noy, Holger Knublauch and Mark A. Musen

Tutorial materials

• Tutorial description from the conference website
• Tutorial handouts and slides (PDF, PowerPoint)

The tutorial will include a hands-on component and we strongly encourage participants to bring along their laptops: we will have an interactive walk-through of the tool and a series of exercises for participants to do during the tutorial. For the hands-on portion to be a success, please, make sure that you download and install the following components installed on (not just copied to) your laptops:

• Protege 3.0 beta: use all the default options in the installation script, but choose "Everything" in the installation dialog
• Racer (A DL reasoner): unzip/extract the executable to somewhere you can find it
• OWLViz: (to replace the version that comes with the Protege download) unzip to the Protégé plugins/ directory
• Graphviz: (required for OWLViz) installing in the default location is recommended
• Class Desciption Display: unzip to the Protégé plugins/ directory
• Sample OWL files (ZIP): unzip somewhere convenient. Open .owl files on Protégé startup by selecting OWL Files then Build... and then selecting the .owl file (or when Protégé is running, select Build New Project... from the File menu)

Supplementary materials

• The Protégé-OWL Tutorial (PDF)
• OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns

Questions? Send email to Alan Rector and Natasha Noy