The Protégé Training & Support Program provides opportunities for close interaction and collaboration between Protégé users and the research scientists and software developers that make up the Protégé staff.

Contact Information:
Jennifer Vendetti
Email: protege-affiliates@lists.stanford.edu

Consulting (fee: $500/staff person/hour)

Topics of consultation may include (but are not limited to):

• Ontology and knowledge base design and/or evaluation
• Plug-in design and/or development
• Using Protégé in applications
• Visualization and comprehension techniques for large knowledge-bases

Short Courses

Short courses provide opportunities for attendees to receive intensive training on various aspects of the Protégé system. We currently offer two short courses:

• Protégé Short Course
  A comprehensive 4-day course on building ontologies, knowledge bases, and applications using Protégé (covers both frame-based and OWL ontologies).
• Protégé-OWL Short Course
  An intensive 2-day introduction to developing OWL ontologies and Semantic Web applications using Protégé-OWL.

Protégé Affiliate (fee: $15,000/year)

Becoming a Protégé affiliate combines the benefits of consulting with several additional items:

• 40 hours consulting
• Free admittance of two persons to the annual Protégé Conference
• Complimentary Protégé logo coffee mug and t-shirt
• Recognition in the Protégé application's About Box and in the About Us section of the Protégé Web Site