Tutorial 2: Ontology Tools

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Tutorial 2 Ontology Tools

• Boris Lauser
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the
  UN, Rome, Italy

5th AOS Workshop Beijing, China 27th
April 2004
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Agenda
Overview KAON Protégé

• Short Overview of current tools
• The KAON Tool suite
• Creating an RDFS based ontology with KAON
• Export ontology for interoperability
• Break
• Protégé 2000
• Creating an OWL ontology with Protégé
• Importing into Protégé

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Overview KAON Protégé
1partly taken from Lambrix et al Evaluation of
ontology development tools for bioinformatics,
Sweden 2003. http//www.geneontology.org/email-go
/go-arc/go-2003/att-1944/01-EvalOntol.pdf.
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Exhaustive survey on ontology tools
http//www.xml.com/2002/11/06/Ontology_Editor_Sur
vey.html.
Overview KAON Protégé

• ? In this tutorial
• The KAON tool suite
• Prior experience at FAO
• Easy to use interface
• Protégé 2000
• New OWL standard

Web http//kaon.semanticweb.org
Web http//protege.stanford.edu
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References and further reading

• URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers)http//www.ietf
  .org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
• RDF Schema languagehttp//www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-
  rdf-schema-20040210/
• Web Ontology working grouphttp//www.w3.org/2001/
  sw/WebOnt/
• OWL Web Ontology language guidehttp//www.w3.org/
  TR/owl-guide/