Presenter: Jennifer Vendetti
Time: Sunday, July 23rd, 2006, 4:00-5:30PM PST
Location:
James H. Clark Center
(room number T.B.A.), Stanford University
Tutorial Description
This tutorial will focus on several Protégé plug-ins that have been developed specifically for the
purpose of visualizing ontologies. The first portion of the tutorial will be a hands-on walk-through of the graph
widget tutorial that is available on the Protégé
Web site. The graph widget is a custom slot widget plug-in that allows users to graphically create and populate
instances of classes. It is very useful as a) an alternative to
Protégé Forms
for entering instance data, b) as a way to visualize networks of instances, and c) as a way to visualize relationships
between instances. The second portion of the tutorial will be a demonstration of the
Ontoviz and
TGViz tab plug-ins. If time permits
at the end of the tutorial, there will also be a demonstration of a new visualization plug-in called the
Impact & Alignment Tab,
which is a work in progress and will be released in the fall. The target audience for this tutorial are Protégé users
with little exposure to the existing visualization plug-ins that are currently available. If users plan to follow
the hands-on portion of the tutorial, basic experience with navigating the Protégé user interface will be assumed.
Attendees should know how to perform rudimentary tasks such as opening projects and creating new classes, slots,
and instances.
Tutorial Preparation
If you would like to follow the hands-on portion of the tutorial, please complete the following steps
prior to arrival:
- Download and install Protégé. For the purposes of this
tutorial, it does not matter if you have the release version (3.1.1), or the latest beta version (3.2 beta, build 324). The presenter will be using 3.2 beta.
- Download the example project that will be used for the
graph widget tutorial.
- If you are new to Protégé, please familiarize yourself with basic operations such as opening projects and creating classes, slots,
and instances. You can learn about how to perform these operations in the
"Getting Started with Protégé-Frames" guide.
- If you want to experiment with the OntoViz Tab, you need to install 3rd party software called "Graphviz" from AT&T Research. Instructions
on how to do this (both for the PC and the Mac) are available on the Protege Wiki.
Last updated: Tuesday, July 18th, 2006, 6:10PM PST