FAO of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division AOS workshop Beijing April 04 Tutorial 2: Ontology Tools Boris Lauser Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, Rome, Italy 5 th AOS Workshop: Beijing, China 27 th April 2004

FAO of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division AOS Workshop Beijing April 2004 Agenda Short Overview of current tools The KAON Tool suite –Creating an RDFS based ontology with KAON –Export ontology for interoperability Break Protégé 2000 –Creating an OWL ontology with Protégé –Importing into Protégé Overview KAON Protégé

FAO of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division AOS Workshop Beijing April 2004 Overview KAON Protégé Protégé KAONOilEdChimaera Main strengths 1 User interface, Extendability through plug- ins, Different import/export formats, OWL-Plug-in User interface, concept extraction plug- in, Description logic based, powerful FaCT reasoner Merging and diagnosing, multiple user support, different formats, Main weaknesses 1 Proprietary RDF(S) extensions User interface Availability Java/local Internet Main purpose Creating, editing, browsing Merging, Diagnosing 1 partly taken from Lambrix et al: Evaluation of ontology development tools for bioinformatics, Sweden

FAO of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division AOS Workshop Beijing April 2004 Overview KAON Protégé Exhaustive survey on ontology tools:  In this tutorial: The KAON tool suite Prior experience at FAO Easy to use interface Protégé 2000 New OWL standard Web: Web:

FAO of the UN Library and Documentation Systems Division AOS Workshop Beijing April 2004 References and further reading URI (Uniform Resource Identifiers) RDF Schema language schema / schema / Web Ontology working group OWL Web Ontology language guide