[protege-discussion] populate ontology automatically

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi,

I've done something like this but after trying a variety of approaches  
and due to the need to map my source instances in one format to my  
target ontology (with my own specific meta model) I found that the  
easiest way was to build some software that writes Python scripts that  
I run in the Script Console.

Prompt is excellent but for the volumes of instances I was importing  
(1000's), it wasn't practical.
DataMaster is also excellent and if you can change the column names of  
your source database to match your target classes then it does a nice  
job. I found that what it did then was to create a sub-class under my  
target class and import the instances into that subclass. This allows  
you to explore them to make sure they've imported properly (or as you  
expected) and then when you are happy with these instances, you can  
assign them to your real class and remove the sub-class that  
DataMaster created. You need a JDBC datasource for this to work.
 
The script approach isn't as difficult as you might think and because  
it uses the API (rather than hacking the PINS file) it imports to  
ontologies that are using the Protege Database backend and ensures  
that all the great Protege stuff happens when you create/update  
instances as it does when you use the GUI.

I'm working on making this more automated but right now, my  
'integration server' processes source instance information from e.g.  
XML, writes the import scripts and I then run them manually in the  
Script Tab.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Regards

Jonathan
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On 26 Feb 2009, at 07:36, Yuddish Ravi wrote:

hi,
   can you please tell how can i retrieve instances online and  
populate my ontology automatically?
   
thnks

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