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Protege-OWL Short Course: Early Bird Rates ExpireTomorrow!

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-05-01T22:48:01

*Early bird rates for the Protege-OWL Short Course expire tomorrow 
(Wednesday, May 2nd) at midnight!*

The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to 
ontology engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).  We cover best 
practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, 
including OWL 2, RDF, SPARQL, and SWRL.

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how 
to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports 
the full OWL 2 standard.  Protege is the most popular and widely used 
ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World 
Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!.

- Dates & location: May 30 - June 1, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/wC7IU
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/JPP1o
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/uiRxu
- Facebook event page: http://goo.gl/tp3WQ

All portions of the course will be taught by members of the Protege staff:

Matthew Horridge
Natasha Noy
Martin O'Connor
Timothy Redmond
Samson Tu
Tania Tudorache
Jennifer Vendetti

Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Protege-OWL Short Course: Early Bird Rates ExpireSoon (May 2nd)

Jennifer Leigh Vendetti — 2012-04-25T23:14:23

Dear Protege Community, 

Early bird rates for the Protege-OWL Short Course expire next week on Wednesday, May 2nd! 

The c ourse provides an in-depth introduction to ontology engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).  We cover best practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, including OWL 2, RDF, SPARQL, and SWRL. 

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports the full OWL 2 standard.  Protege is the most popular and widely used ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!. 

- Dates & location: May 30 - June 1, 2012, Stanford University 
- Course content: http://goo.gl/wC7IU 
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/JPP1o 
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/uiRxu 
- Facebook event page: http://goo.gl/tp3WQ 

All portions of the course will be taught by members of the Protege staff: 

Matthew Horridge 
Natasha Noy 
Martin O'Connor 
Timothy Redmond 
Samson Tu 
Tania Tudorache 
Jennifer Vendetti 

Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu. 

Best Regards, 
The Protege Team 

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Help the Protege team by filling out a 3-minute survey (and get a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card)

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-04-05T20:32:42

Dear Protege Community,

If you have used WebProtege [1] or Collaborative Protege (the desktop client with collaborative features) [2], then the Protege team needs your help!  We are about to submit a funding proposal to continue this work, and would like to understand better how you use these tools.  Please help us by filling out a short survey:http://svy.mk/ProtegeSurvey2012.

If you respond before April 30th, 2012, you can enter in a drawing to win a $25 Amazon gift card.

Thank you!

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

[1]http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/WebProtege
[2]http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Collaborative_Protege

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Protege-OWL Short Course, May 30 - June 1, 2012,Stanford University

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-04-03T22:22:07

Dear Protege Community,

We are pleased to announce another offering of the Protege-OWL Short 
Course in late May of this year.
*
* The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to 
ontology engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).  We cover best 
practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, 
including OWL 2, RDF, SPARQL, and SWRL.

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how 
to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports 
the full OWL 2 standard.  Protege is the most popular and widely used 
ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World 
Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!.

- Dates & location: May 30 - June 1, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/wC7IU
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/JPP1o
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/uiRxu
- Facebook event page: http://goo.gl/tp3WQ

All portions of the course will be taught by members of the Protege staff:

Matthew Horridge
Natasha Noy
Martin O'Connor
Timothy Redmond
Samson Tu
Tania Tudorache
Jennifer Vendetti

Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Protege-OWL Short Course: Early Bird Rates ExpireTomorrow!

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-02-29T01:30:02

*Early bird rates for the Protege-OWL Short Course expire tomorrow 
(Wednesday, February 29th) at midnight!*

The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to 
ontology engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).  We cover best 
practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, 
including OWL 2, RDF, SPARQL, and SWRL.

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how 
to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports 
the full OWL 2 standard.  Protege is the most popular and widely used 
ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World 
Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!.

- Dates & location: March 28-30, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/GdWjs
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/DbI1w
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/1u032
- Facebook event page: http://goo.gl/Q08Yf

All portions of the course will be taught by members of the Protege staff:

Matthew Horridge
Natasha Noy
Martin O'Connor
Timothy Redmond
Samson Tu
Tania Tudorache
Jennifer Vendetti

Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Protege-OWL Short Course: Early Bird Rates ExpireSoon

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-02-21T23:04:43

*Early bird rates for the Protege-OWL Short Course expire next week on 
Wednesday, February 29th!*

The Protege-OWL Short Course provides an in-depth introduction to 
ontology engineering and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).  We cover best 
practices in ontology building and the latest Semantic Web technologies, 
including OWL 2, RDF, SPARQL, and SWRL.

During the hands-on portion of the course, participants will learn how 
to navigate the latest version of the Protege tool set, which supports 
the full OWL 2 standard.  Protege is the most popular and widely used 
ontology editor, employed in projects by organizations such as the World 
Health Organization, eBay, and Yahoo!.

- Dates & location: March 28-30, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/GdWjs
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/DbI1w
- Online registration: http://goo.gl/1u032
- Facebook event page: http://goo.gl/Q08Yf

All portions of the course will be taught by members of the Protege staff:

Matthew Horridge
Natasha Noy
Martin O'Connor
Timothy Redmond
Samson Tu
Tania Tudorache
Jennifer Vendetti

Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse at lists.stanford.edu.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Protege-OWL Short Course: Online registration nowavailable!

Jennifer Vendetti — 2012-01-11T23:55:30

Protege Community,

Online registration for the Protege-OWL Short Course is now available: 
http://goo.gl/v4I7b!

Early bird discounts expire February 29th, and we offer a 10% discount 
for groups of 4 or more people from the same organization.

- Dates & location: March 28-30, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/GdWjs
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/DbI1w

*Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse< at >lists.stanford.edu.*

Check out our Facebook event page 
<https://www.facebook.com/events/296689360369503/> for the course, or 
get regular updates from our Twitter 
<http://twitter.com/#%21/protegeproject> feed.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Protege-OWL Short Course, March 28-30, 2012,Stanford University

Jennifer Vendetti — 2011-12-16T01:09:51

Protege Community,

We are pleased to announce that we will hold another offering of the 
*Protege-OWL Short Course* early next year.  The course provides an 
introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a theoretical 
standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on use of the 
Protege platform. Instructors emphasize how to use OWL ontologies, and 
other semantic technologies like SWRL, to build semantic applications 
with examples from real-world use cases.

The course is especially geared toward beginner and intermediate users 
of Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register.  Online 
registration will be available in early January.

- Dates & location: March 28-30, 2012, Stanford University
- Course content: http://goo.gl/GdWjs
- Course schedule: http://goo.gl/DbI1w

*Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse< at >lists.stanford.edu.*

You can find regular course updates on our Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protege-Project/136205016405270> and 
Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/protegeproject> accounts.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Advice regarding future directions for Protégé

Mark Musen — 2011-09-29T18:21:32

Colleagues,

I am writing to seek your advice regarding future directions for the Protégé Project.  As you know, all the work that we perform on the Protégé suite of tools is supported by external funding, nearly all from federal research grants.  We currently are seeking additional grant support to migrate some of the features that are available in Protégé Version 3 to Protégé Version 4.  We believe that this migration is important, as only Protégé 4 supports the full OWL 2 standard, and we appreciate that many members of our user community are asking to use certain capabilities currently unique to Protégé 3 with OWL 2 ontologies in Protégé 4.

To help the Protégé team in setting priorities, and to help us make the case to our potential funders that enhancement of Protégé 4 is warranted, we'd be grateful if you could please fill out the brief survey at the following URL:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ProtegeDirections

It will not take more than a few minutes for you to give us feedback that will be influential in setting our future goals.  If we can document strong community support for implementing certain Protégé 3 features in Protégé 4, then we will be in a much stronger position to make the case to our funders to initiate the required work.

The entire Protégé team is looking forward to your opinions.  Please be sure to forward this message to colleagues who use Protégé who may not subscribe to these mailing lists so that we can obtain as much feedback as possible.

Many thanks for your help and support.

Mark Musen
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Protege 4.1 Release

Jennifer Vendetti — 2011-07-27T00:04:30

We are pleased to announce the 4.1 release of the Protege-OWL Editor.  
The highlights of this release are:

- Full conformance with the OWL 2.0 language specification
- Automatic update mechanism for distributing new features and bug fixes
- New application bundle format distribution for the OS X community
- Direct, in-memory connection to the HermiT and FaCT++ reasoners

... and much more!  Please check out our detailed release announcement 
on the wiki:

http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/P4_1_Release_Announcement

We would like to thank the user community for sending us your feedback 
throughout the development process.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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Re: A special request: Letter of support forProtege renewal grant

Mark Musen — 2011-01-25T18:08:35

Friends,

I'd like to thank all of you who have taken the time to write letters of support for the renewal of the Protégé resource.  The Protégé team relies exclusively on government funding to sustain our development efforts, and without the kind of testimonials that we have received in your letters, there is no way that we can make an argument for continued grant support.  The future of our work depends on our ability to document the importance of what we do to our user community.  We are thus very grateful for the letter that we have received.

For those of you who have not yet written a letter of support, there is still time to help us make the case for ongoing funding.  We have until the end of February to collect more letters for our new grant application to sustain the Protégé resource.  If you have not written us a letter, please think about doing so now.  If you have friends or colleagues who use Protégé, please forward this message to them and encourage them to help our cause.  We are very grateful for the letter that we have received, and your letters really do make a difference.

Many thanks for your support,

Mark



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New job opening on the Protege team

Jennifer Vendetti — 2011-01-13T01:04:27

Protege Community (and beyond),

We are seeking a senior-level software engineer for a new position on
the Protege team. The job description is provided below.

If you are interested in applying, please proceed to our online job
posting (http://goo.gl/UCYd2) and click the Apply button.

Best Regards,
Jennifer

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*Software Engineer*

Job ID: 41011
Job Location: School of Medicine
Job Category: Information Technology Services
Salary: 4P3
Date Posted: Dec 15, 2010

The Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, a division
within the Stanford University School of Medicine, is looking for a
senior-level software engineer to help design and develop extensions to
a large Web-based ontology editing system. The system uses Java and GWT
as its main technologies. The system is the customization of the Protege
ontology development environment for the use by the World Health
Organization in collaborative development of ICD-11. The International
Classification of Diseases (ICD) is published by WHO and is used
worldwide for morbidity and mortality statistics, reimbursement systems,
and automated decision support in medicine. This is a full-time
position, fixed-term through 12/31/11 pending additional grant funding.

Qualifications:
Candidate will have at least an undergraduate degree in computer science
or a related discipline. Successful candidates will have at least six
years of experience developing high performance applications in Java and
three years of experience developing web applications.

Required:
Experience maintaining and developing complex Java-based systems is
required. Knowledge of GWT programming is required.

Desired:
Experience with JDBC is preferred. Experience fixing performance
problems and memory leaks is preferred. Experience with knowledge bases
or the Semantic Web is highly desirable but not required. Experience
working in an interdisciplinary environment is also highly desirable.
Experience collaborating with multiple organizations in different parts
of the country is highly desirable. Experience developing collaborative
platforms is highly desirable. Experience developing social-networking
tools is a plus.
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Protege-OWL Short Course, March 23-25, 2011,Stanford University

Jennifer Vendetti — 2010-12-07T22:15:55

Protege Community,

We are pleased to announce that we will hold another offering of the 
*Protege-OWL Short Course* early next year.  The course provides an 
introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a theoretical 
standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on use of the 
Protege platform. Instructors emphasize how to use OWL ontologies, and 
other semantic technologies like SWRL, to build semantic applications 
with examples from real-world use cases.

The course is especially geared toward beginner and intermediate users 
of Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register.

Dates & location: March 23-25, 2011, Stanford University
Course content: http://goo.gl/V65n2
Course schedule: http://goo.gl/moE4N
Online registration: http://goo.gl/aOjtq (early bird discounts expire 
Feb. 23rd, 10% off for groups of 5 or more)

*Please note: Seating is limited!*

*Questions?  Contact protege-shortcourse< at >lists.stanford.edu.*

You can find regular course updates on our Facebook 
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Protege-Project/136205016405270> and 
Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/protegeproject> accounts.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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A special request: Letter of support for Protegerenewal grant

Mark Musen — 2010-12-01T03:58:06

Dear Colleagues,

I apologize for the cross-postings, but this message is very important. This message is about the future of the Protégé system.

As most of you know, Stanford is able to make Protégé available as a freely downloadable, supported, open-source platform only because we receive a generous grant from the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH funding supports bug fixes and feature enhancements requested by the community. Each new release of the Protégé system is a direct result of our NIH funding.

We have received ongoing funding for the Protégé resource since 2003, and it is now time to prepare our next grant application so that we can continue to evolve the software (the rich client, WebProtégé, and a wide range of plug-ins), to answer questions posted to our mailing lists, and to offer our recurring Protégé conferences. For those of you who have benefitted from the availability of Protégé over the years, we would be extremely grateful if you could join with us to help us secure the next round of funding so that you can continue to receive these benefits.

I am asking for something very simple: A letter of support that we can include in our grant application.

When our request for grant funding will be reviewed by the NIH, the testimonials that we receive from our user community will have a major role in determining whether we will receive future funding and, if so, whether we will be funded at the level that we request in our proposal. Letters from people who rely on Protégé technology will go a long way in ensuring uninterrupted user support and many exciting new features in the years ahead. Your letter will make an enormous difference to ensure that Protégé doesn't go away.

It would be best if you could send me a signed letter on letterhead (either a hardcopy or, preferably, a PDF) that I can include in the grant application. Sending me plain e-mail is fine, but a letter on formal letterhead with a real signature will have maximum impact on the reviewers.

Every letter should provide a brief description of the project or projects for which you are using Protégé or have used Protégé. If a project is the result of federally sponsored research, please include a reference to the agency that is funding the work and the corresponding grant or contract number. Grant numbers are particularly important to the National Institutes of Health.

Although there is no required format for your letter—and indeed it should not appear that your letter is following a specific template—it would be wonderful if you could comment on the following kinds of things:

* How are you using Protégé? Please describe the project or projects with which you are using the system.

* How have you benefitted from the Protégé resource? Have you or your team used our mailing lists? Have you communicated with the Protégé development group directly? Have you attended any of our conferences?

* If the availability of an open-source product such as Protégé is important to you, you might comment on why this is the case.

* There are now several commercial tools on the market that allow users to create and edit ontologies and knowledge bases. If you believe that Protégé, its plug-ins, or the Protégé user community offer advantages that are important to you that are not associated with these commercial products, you might want to comment on why you are using Protégé. Do you see a tangible advantage to the development and enhancement of a tool such as Protégé by a research group such as ours? Simply put, the government will want to know why it should continue to invest in the Protégé system and in its ongoing evolution.

* In sum, how has the availability of the Protégé resource made a difference to you and your work?

Formal letters are best, but, if it is impractical to write a letter, a brief e-mail message will be greatly appreciated. Fundamentally, the continued existence of the Protégé resource depends on our ability to demonstrate the importance of our work to the community of users whom we support. Without your enthusiastic letters, NIH will not see evidence for continuing to fund us.

I know that this request imposes on your time. The entire Protégé team will be grateful for any statement of support that we can include in our grant application. One of the most exciting aspects of the Protégé project has been the ability to serve and support a user community that believes in our work and in what we are trying to do. All of us who work on the Protégé system are grateful to all of you who have contributed your support, your suggestions, and your code to the Protégé project.

Please send your letters to me at the address below. If you know of others who might be able to help us out, then please forward this message directly to them.

Many thanks for your support and for your contributions to our user community,

Mark Musen
Principal Investigator, the Protégé project

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Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research) and of Computer Science
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
Stanford University
251 Campus Drive, X-215
Stanford, CA 94305 USA

Phone: +1 (650) 725-3390
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Protege 3.4.2 Patch Release

Jennifer Vendetti — 2009-12-17T03:29:50

We have posted an update to the 3.4 release (version number 3.4.2, build
562).

Download URL:
http://protege.stanford.edu/download/protege/3.4/installanywhere/

If you haven't registered to use Protege, please do so before
downloading this new patch release.

Registration URL: http://protege.stanford.edu/download/register.html

Updates to Protege Client-Server
----------------------------------
1). Modifications to the metaproject:

a) Passwords are now encrypted using the MD5 hash function.
b) Existing metaproject files will automatically be updated to the new
metaproject format (see below). An archive of the old metaproject will
be created in a subfolder of where the metaproject was stored.
Passwords will automatically be encrypted.
c) The DigestedPassword widget can be employed to change a user's
password without exposing the existing text.

New metaproject format:

- Groups are now a subclass of PolicyControlledObject, such that
policies can be attached to groups, e.g., who is allowed to add a user
to a group, etc.
- Instances of several classes now have property lists attached, such
that property-value pairs can be added and accessed without the need to
modify the APIs.
- Last access and last login times are now stored in User instances.
- A salt property was added to the User class for the MD5 encryption
algorithm.
- Added an "email" property to the User class.

2). Modifications to the Server Admin Panel:

- A live copy of the metaproject is now shown in the Server Admin Panel,
which allows for modification of the metaproject contents at server
runtime. For example, policies can be modified on the fly, users and
projects can be added, etc. Read more on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Protege_Client_Server_Tutorial_Administration.

- A "Save metaproject" button is now available on the "Server Control" tab

3). Modifications to the API:

- Methods for checking the policies on Groups have been added to the
RemoteServer interface.

- Session IDs are now cryptographically secure and support delegation.

- The metaproject API was updated to mirror the new metaproject structure.

- Much better logging and error reporting for cases in which a client
cannot connect to a Protege server.

Updates to Core Protege
---------------------------
- A combo box instance widget was added that facilitates the selection
of existing allowed values. The widget can be attached to single
cardinality properties of type string.

- A password widget was added that hides typed text from the user. The
widget can be attached to single cardinality properties of type string.

- The default MySQL column length was reduced to 333 (from 500) to fix
the error: "Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes".

Updates to Protege-OWL
---------------------------
- The steps to change the way in which resources are displayed (rdf:id
vs. rdfs:label) have been significantly simplified.

- Corrected a problem where the name of an ontology was determined by
calculating the xml:base, which is not compatible with the OWL
specification.

- Fixed browser text for entities with multiple types.

Updates to Collaborative Protege & Change Management
-----------------------------------------------------------
1). Modifications to the Changes & Annotation Ontology (ChAO):

a) More structured proposal types are available, e.g., NewConcept
proposal, MergeProposal, etc.
b) A status property was added to AnnotatableThing so that the status of
the notes, ontology components, and changes can be set. The values of
the status are configurable by defining instances of the Status class.
c) Added Review, ReviewRequest, User, and Reviewer classes.
d) Added an "archived" property on the Annotation class.

2). Collaborative Protege now supports the archival of notes and
discussion threads. If a note is marked as "Archived", it can then be
hidden from the display using the Collaboration menu (Configure |
Options | Hide archived notes).

3). The default notes view will show an "archived" check box and a
drop-down list for selecting the status of a note. The status can also
be set for ontology components or changes.

4). The number of notes attached to a class is shown in the class tree
next to the notes icon. The number of notes attached to subclasses is
also shown in parenthesis, such that notes at lower levels in the
hierarchy are more easily located.

5). A status filter for notes and changes has been added to the filter
combo box.

6). Made performance improvements by using a cache of note counts and
ontology components.

More details are available on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Collaborative_Protege.

IMPORTANT: To use new features in Collaborative Protege with an
existing ChAO ontology, you need to update your ChAO ontology to the new
format. Instructions for updating are available on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Changes_Tab#Upgrade_instructions_for_ChAO_ontology_for_Protege_3.4.2_release.

New Bundled Plug-ins
-----------------------
1). Axiome - a plug-in for SWRL rules elicitation and management. Read
more on our wiki: http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/Axiome.

2). BioPortal Reference Plugin - a plug-in allowing users to insert
references to external ontologies and terminologies from BioPortal
(http://bioportal.bioontology.org/) into their ontologies. The plug-in
works with the latest BioPortal 2.2.2 release. A user's guide and other
documentation is available on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/BioPortal_Reference_Plugin. A
generic Java library for accessing BioPortal services was implemented as
part of this plug-in. The library is available in the
bioportal_services_lib.jar in the
<your-protege-install-dir>/plugins/edu.stanford.bmir.protegex.bp.ref
folder. Library documentation is also available on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/BioPortal_Reference_Plugin#Developer.27s_Guide.

3). Lucene Query - a tab plug-in that provides a wide variety of ways
to search an ontology (many features are specific to OWL ontologies).
Examples of Lucene queries against the NCI Thesaurus are:

Preferred_Name sounds like onkoejene

... or ...

Find all classes that have a necessary or sufficient condition
connecting them to genes found in a human organism

The tab allows users to search for resources (individuals, properties or
classes) by specifying such things as:

a) A data or annotation property value of the resource is a match for
some search criteria. Available search criteria include exact match,
strings starting or ending with a specified string, phonetic match, and
Lucene query match.
b) A property value is either missing or present. This search works for
annotation, object, and data properties.
c) The absence or presence of a necessary or sufficient condition that
includes a restriction with a specified property.

In addition, Lucene Query searches can be combined. Users can form
conjunctions or disjunctions of primitive Lucene Query searches and can
search for classes with necessary or sufficient conditions that
contain a restriction with a class matching a query.

Updates to Existing Bundled Plug-ins
-------------------------------------
Bundling a new version of DataMaster (version 1.3.2), which contains a
fix to work with PostgreSQL databases that have database schemas
defined. DataMaster is documented on our wiki:
http://protegewiki.stanford.edu/index.php/DataMaster.

Please note that Stanford will be closed from December 21st, through
January 1st. If you experience problems with this patch release,
previous versions of Protege are always available for download:

http://protege.cim3.net/download/old-releases/

Best Regards,
Tim, Tania, Jennifer, Csongor, Martin

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Protege-OWL Short Course, March 24-26, 2010,Stanford University

Jennifer Vendetti — 2009-11-17T20:45:50

Protege Community,

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a Protege-OWL Short 
Course at Stanford University from March 24th-26th, 2010.  The course 
provides an introduction to ontology development in OWL, both from a 
theoretical standpoint and from a practical standpoint through hands-on 
use of the Protege platform. The course also emphasizes how to use OWL 
ontologies, and other semantic technologies like SWRL, to build semantic 
applications with examples from real-world use cases.  More details 
about course content [1], as well as a complete course schedule [2] are 
available online.

The course is especially geared toward beginner and intermediate users 
of Protege-OWL, but everyone is welcome to register.  Online 
registration is available on the course website [3].

The course will be taught by members of the Protege staff [4] and 
enrollment is limited to ensure optimal learning experiences.  We are 
currently offering a 10% discount for groups of five or more people from 
the same organization.  Please contact the course organizers if you have 
additional questions about the short course: 
protege-shortcourse< at >lists.stanford.edu.

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

[1] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/content.html
[2] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/schedule.html
[3] http://protege.stanford.edu/shortcourse/protege-owl/201003/register.html
[4] http://protege.stanford.edu/aboutus/aboutus.html

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Developing OWL Ontologies with Protege 4 Tutorialat K-CAP 2009

Jennifer Vendetti — 2009-08-16T02:19:08

We thought it might be of interest to the user community that Simon Jupp 
and Timothy Redmond will be offering the "Developing OWL Ontologies with 
Protege 4" tutorial at The Fifth International Conference on Knowledge 
Capture (K-CAP 2009).

The tutorial will be a half-day event, offered on the morning of 
September 1st, 2009.

* Tutorial details: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/tutorials.html
* Online registration: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/registration.html
* Venue: http://kcap09.stanford.edu/venue.html

Best Regards,
The Protege Team

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