[protege-discussion] beginner questions

[Jason Sachs]

> The right-most button in the row at the top of the Instance browser is a
> down arrow / upside down triangle. Click this and you can select the
> "display slot". Either pick a slot from your class to use to display each
> instance, e.g. the patent number OR you can build the display from a pattern
> of multiple slots, e.g. <country>:<patent number>
>
Sweet, that's exactly what I want.


> In the end, what I've done is use the Java API via the Script Tab using
> Python/Jython. This means that I code the mapping from my data sources to my
> ontology and handle large numbers of imported (1000's) instances. For XML
> sources, I use XSLT to create the Python code that I then run to create the
> instances as required.
>

ok. I'll probably do the java approach. I have several tables in a MySQL
database for patent stuff already...

thanks!
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