[protege-discussion] Limited number of classes

[Samson Tu]

Alba Fuertes wrote:
> Dear all,
>  
> I pretend to develop a very extensive ontology with about 13.000 
> classes. By now I have all these classes listed in an Excel file and my 
> questions are:
>  
> - Is possible in Protégé to introduce this huge amount of classes? 
> Which problems could appear?

13000 classes shouldn't be a problem, unless you have a lot of other 
things too.

> - If it was possible and bearing in mind that I have an Excel file, is 
> there any other way to introduce the classes in Protégé without typing 
> all again?

In a situation like this, I usually use the Protege Script tab to read 
in a file and use Protege's API to create classes, instances or whatever.


Samson

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