June 1, 2008 Michael Erdmann, Peter Haase, Holger Lewen, Rudi Studer Ontology Engineering and Plug-in Development with the NeOn Toolkit Introduction June 1, 2008 Michael Erdmann, Peter Haase, Holger Lewen, Rudi Studer 1

At the end of today… …you will know about … you will be able to foundations of ontology engineering and usage ontology lifecycle activities the NeOn Toolkit … you will be able to use the NeOn Toolkit for complex ontology engineering tasks develop your own plugins for the NeOn Toolkit

Introduction Dr. Michael Erdmann Dr. Peter Haase Holger Lewen Senior Software Engineer and Architect at ontoprise GmbH Leads development of OWL-support in the NeOn Toolkit Interests and expertise: Semantic technologies, Web 2.0, Possible Combinations Dr. Peter Haase Researcher at AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Project leader: NeOn – Lifecycle support for networked ontologies Interests and expertise: Semantic technologies and Semantic Web Infrastructure Holger Lewen Current Project: NeOn Research Interests: Semantic Web and Open Rating Systems Prof. Rudi Studer Professor at AIFB, University of Karlsruhe Technical coordinator of the NeOn project President of the Semantic Web Science Association

Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies “Shaping the future infrastructures for semantic applications” EU IST Integrated Project Start date: March 2006 Duration: 4 year project Funding: € 10M (FP6) http://www.neon-project.org/ Key outcomes from NeOn Open, scalable and service-centered reference architecture for supporting the lifecycle of semantic applications The NeOn Toolkit – a resource for engineering contextualized networked ontologies and semantic applications Industry-strength documentation and reference material Three case studies in two sectors: pharmaceuticals and agriculture/fisheries The Open University (co-ordinator) University of Sheffield Universidad Politecnica Madrid, iSOCO, pharmaInnova, Atos Origin Universitaet Karlsruhe, Software AG, ontoprise, Universitaet Koblenz-Landau Institut ‘Jozef Stefan’ INRIA Alpes United Nations FAO, CNR-LOA

What is the NeOn Toolkit? Reference implementation of the NeOn architecture Support ontology engineering and management Support for complete ontology lifecycle Support for different languages (OWL, F-Logic) Support for networked ontologies (modules, mappings) Built on the Eclipse platform Extensible architecture Via Eclipse plugin mechanism Via Web Services - Management of mappings, modules Slide 5 5

Plugins Supporting Lifecycle Activities Slide 6 6

NeOn Toolkit Availability Basic configuration Completely free Open source Extended configuration Commercial version Free for academic use Community support For users and developers Tutorials, mailing lists Activities coordinated by the NeOn Foundation Opportunity to contribute! NeOn Toolkit Portal: http://www.neon-toolkit.org/ Download of the toolkit, plugins, online resources, wiki, …

3 Aspects of the NeOn Platform Plugin Development Exploit Eclipse platform Open and standardized APIs Ontology Engineering (Design Time) Lifecycle support Plugin/Extension Model Editing support Views Mapping Collaboration support […] Ontology Usage (Runtime) Ontology servers Runtime interfaces Runtime access to resources (life integration, wrappers) Runtime security extend deploy Afternoon Session Morning Session Not Today…

Agenda – Morning Session: Ontology Engineering Introduction Overview of the NeOn Toolkit and agenda Ontology Lifecycle and Methodology Ontology Development Ontology Selection and Reuse Ontology Evaluation Ontology Engineering with the NeOn Toolkit Demonstration of toolkit and plugins Hands-on

Agenda – Afternoon Session: Plugin Development NeOn Architecture Plugin overview Eclipse Plugin Architecture Overview Core NeOn Toolkit plugins GUI plugins NeOn ontology management API Hands-on Wrap-up

Software Requirements Morning Session NeOn Toolkit 1.1 Afternoon Session NeOn Toolkit Sources 1.1 Eclipse 3.2.1 with EMF 2.2.0 and GEF 3.2.1 Java 1.5 compliance level All the software is provided on CD, download links also on the tutorial website