OWL Tutorial
Holger Knublauch, Stanford University

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been accepted as the standard for the representation of sharable domain models. The vision of the Semantic Web is to integrate these ontologies so that autonomous agents can provide intelligent services.

This tutorial will serve as an introduction to OWL and Protégé's support for OWL and the Semantic Web in general.

We will cover the following issues:

• OWL and the Semantic Web
• Protégé and the OWL Plugin
• How to define OWL classes and properties
• How to use description logics features of OWL (e.g., classification)
• How to create individuals for Semantic Web contents
• How to customize and extend the OWL Plugin

The tutorial will be hands-on and provide sufficient time for questions on all aspects of OWL and the Protégé OWL Plugin. Attendees should have Protégé and the OWL Plugin installed if possible, but we will also pass around installation CDs.

No prior knowledge of OWL or Protégé is required, although reading the Protégé/OWL tutorial in advance will certainly help following the tutorial. You should bring your laptop if you want to follow the walk-though.

More information on the Protege OWL Plugin is available at http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins/owl/.