A free, open-source ontology editor and framework for building intelligent systems Protégé is supported by a strong community of academic, government, and corporate users, who use Protégé to build knowledge-based solutions in areas as diverse as biomedicine, e-commerce, and organizational modeling.

Protégé Desktop supports creation and editing of one or more ontologies in a single workspace via a completely customizable user interface. Visualization tools allow for interactive navigation of ontology relationships.

– IsaViz: visual RDF editor – Many many graph-like visualization tools! • What is Jambalaya? – Jambalaya = SHriMP + Protégé & Protégé-OWL glue – What is SHriMP? • Nested (or un-nested) graph • Originally for software understanding • Has other plug-in variations (eg. Creole) • Smooth animated zooming & layouts

A free, open-source ontology editor and framework for building intelligent systems

The Ninth International Protégé Conference will take place in Stanford, California from July 23-26, 2006 at Stanford University.Please mark these dates on your calendar and plan to join us for a few days this summer.

extending RDF with more expressive constructs aimed at facilitating agent interaction on the Web (Hendler and McGuinness 2000). Many disciplines now develop standardized ontologies that domain experts can use to share and annotate information in their fields. Medicine, for

editing, thus allowing multiple clients to add or edit different individuals and to reuse the globally unique URIs simultaneously. This is of benefit to building a huge database which comes from different users’ consciousness.

Gene Ontology Next Generation Project (GONG) • Demonstrate the utility of finer grained concept descriptions in DAML+OIL • Develop methodologies and tools to

Ontologies - Current Context • The large metaphysical questions remain – What is the essence of being and being in the world • Our science and technology is moving questions

The Protégé ontology editor • Free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework • Support for different: – ontology languages (OWL, RDF(S), Frames) – backends: Database, XML, CLIPS, etc. • Strong user community: more than 123K downloads • Used widely in academic, government, and industry PROTÉGÉ-I was build for a