Introduction Passerelle is a plug-in developed for Protégé to support Sesame. It provides Protégé users with the possibility to connect their ontologies with Sesame architecture in order to store and query resource description framework (RDF) data from Protégé [1]. We have identified a lack of a strong query language in the previous versions of Protégé (versions preceding Protégé 3.0), which we...

Protégé is one of the most popular tools of the ontology visualization. The “Protégé” tools are being applied for further development in various disciplines for better understanding of knowledge. These tools commonly use four methods of ontology visualization, namely, indented list, node-link and tree, zoomable, and focus+context. The purpose of this work is to present a study on application of...

This paper focuses on the migration of the Foundational Model of Anatomy from its frame-based representation in Protégé to its logical representation in OWL. First, it considers specificities of the FMA in Protégé that were taken into account for the migration, and presents some conversion rules defined for migrating FMA from Protégé 2.1 to OWL DL. Then, the incremental approach currently adopt...

In this paper, we present Web-Protégé—a web-based lightweight ontology editor. Web-Protégé is open source, uses the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for the user interface, and Protégé for supporting ontology services. We used components of Collaborative Protégé to augment the ontology-editing environment with facilities for discussions and annotations. In this paper, we describe both the server and th...

The inherent complexity of ontologies poses a number of cognitive and perceptual challenges for ontology authors. We investigate how users deal with the complexity of the authoring process by analysing how one of the most widespread ontology development tools (i.e. Protégé) is used. To do so, we build Protégé4US (Protégé for User Studies) by extending Protégé in order to generate log files that...

In this paper, we present MAP2OWL, a software tool that allows the development of OWL ontologies as concept maps. MAP2OWL uses existing OWL constructs to represent conceptual maps; in this way, domain experts develop ontolologies in a graphical conceptual way, not having to be aware of syntactic matters, or issues related to interfaces that were designed for knowledge engineers. MAP2OWL facilit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Mentoring has been acknowledged as a critical factor in the development of family medicine academicians. Specific aims were to describe the research mentoring in family medicine from the experience of both mentors and protégés and identify characteristics that mentors and protégés associated with a successful mentoring relationship. The Grant Generating Project (GGP) F...

Context We consider the problem of automating the maintenance of a platform-independent software environment composed of one main application, several plugins and some external thirdparty applications. We assume that the architecture is distributed and loosely coupled: each of these software component can be maintained by different groups and hosted separately, and no common release format is r...

We applied the Protégé methodology for building knowledge-based systems to the domain of antiretroviral therapy. We modeled the task of prescribing drug therapy for HIV, abstracting the essential characteristics of the problem solving. We mapped our model of the antiretroviral-therapy domain to the class of constraint-satisfaction problems, and reused the propose-and-revise problem-solving meth...