The Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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CSE663: Advanced Knowledge Representation
Stuart C. Shapiro

Notes on Protégé


"Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework" [Protégé Home page]. Two versions of Protégé are installed on our systems:
Protégé version 3.4.4, Protégé-Frames
An on-line User's Guide is available.

The core of Protégé is a frames-based ontology editor. It also has a number of plug-ins, including

How to run Protégé-Frames
One uses Protégé via its GUI. To run the Protégé GUI on any of the UB CSE Linux machines, execute the Unix command
/projects/shapiro/Protege_3.4.4/Protege
Examples
Example Protégé projects are in
  • /projects/shapiro/Protege_3.4.4/examples/
  • /projects/shapiro/CSE663/ProtegeKBs/

Protégé version 4.0.2, Protégé-OWL

See the Protégé OWL Tutorial

How to run Protégé-OWL
One uses Protégé via its GUI. To run the Protégé GUI on any of the UB CSE Linux machines, execute the Unix command
/util/bin/Protege

Last modified: Mon Apr 4 16:46:17 2011
Stuart C. Shapiro <shapiro@cse.buffalo.edu>