Protege Short Course - October 3-6, 2005 - Stanford, California


Ontology Engineering with Protege: Schedule

Link to Protege software: Protege 3.1.1 installer for Windows
Link to projects for the course:

Monday 3rd  -  Introduction, Biological Examples, and Getting Started
9:00:9:20 Orientation and Participants Introduction
9:20-9:40 Course Introduction (Samson, Ray)
9::40-10:30 Biological Ontology Examples (SA instructors)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Biological Ontology Examples Continued (SA instructors)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Getting started: installation, Protege basics (Samson, Ray)
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 Protege basics continued. Discussion of "Homework" problem (Samson, Ray)
4:00-5:00 Homework session


Tuesday 4th  -  Ontology Development, Extending and Managing Ontologies
9:00-10:30 Ontology Development 101: Frame-based Ontologies (Ray)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Ontology Development 101: Frame-based Ontologies - continued (Ray)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 Overview of Protégé Plugins (Ray)
1:30-2:45 Tasks in the Life Cycle of Ontology Development: Importing External Resources, Visualization (Samson)
2:45-300 Break
3:00-4:00 Using Prompt for Ontology Management (Ray)
4:00-5:00 Homework session


Wednesday 5th  -  More on Extending and Managing Ontologies, Developing Knowledge-based Applications
9:00-10:15 Tasks in the Life Cycle of Ontology Development: Query, Multi-user, Exports (Samson)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Tasks in the Life Cycle of Ontology Development: Integrity Constaints(Samson)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Using Protégé in a Larger System (Ray)
2:00-3:15 Using High-Level Rule-Based and Scripting Languages (Samson)
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 ATHENA Case Study (Samson)
4:00-5:00 Homework session


Thursday 6th  -  Advanced Topics and Participants' Projects
9:00-9:45 Developing Frame-based Ontologies - Advanced (Ray)
9:45-10:15 Knowledge Representation & Reasoning - Different Formalisms (Samson)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Introduction to Protégé OWL (Samson)
11:30-12:00 Exam
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-4:00 Discussion: Participants' Projects