[protege-discussion] protege-discussion Digest, Vol 64, Issue 14

[Girish Joglekar]

Hi Matthew,

Thank you very much for the pointers. I will certainly study the papers. 
A quick glance revealed that they are all 2011 publications. I am 
surprised to find that with so much work going on in semantic web where 
ontologies serve at the key building blocks, there is not much available 
to address the migration issue. Have people done it mostly the hard way 
in the past, or have they done it right the first time?

Does this mean that the plug-ins are available only for 4.0? Should I 
migrate to 4.0? How will the move impact the current code I have? How 
different is the Manchester API from Protege's OWL-API?

Thanks again for your help.

Girish



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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:10:33 -0800
From: Matthew Horridge<matthew.horridge at stanford.edu>
To: User support for Core Protege and the Protege-Frames editor
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Subject: Re: [protege-discussion] maintaining ontologies
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Hi Girish,

This is quite a big topic.  There is quite a lot of research on ontology 
versioning and evolution and a fair number of tools that support tasks 
related to these topics.  Here are some things related to Protege 4....

Some recent work, that is very nice, is work by Rafael Gon?alves at the 
university of Manchester - he looks at analysing changes between 
different versions of ontologies.  Here's a pointer to various 
publications on this:

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~goncalvj/publications.html

Timothy Redmond and Natasha Noy have also done some recent work in this 
area and have produced a Protege 4 plugin.  Here's their paper

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-784/evodyn6.pdf

and here's their plugin

http://smi-protege.stanford.edu/repos/protege/protege4/plugins/org.protege.editor.owl.diff/trunk/ 


There's also the OWLDiff plugin:

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


In terms of versioning with SVN, there were some recent posts on the 
Protege mailing lists about this.  A search through the archives should 
reveal some interesting posts.

Cheers,

Matthew


On 10 Nov 2011, at 05:32, Girish Joglekar wrote:

> If I change an ontology (add/delete/rearrange properties etc.) how do 
> I systematically migrate old ontologies to the new definitions. I 
> realize that if I add a class or a property, I do not have to do 
> anything. But otherwise, I will have to do something programmatically. 
> Is there a users manual which explains maintenance of ontologies in 
> general? Also, how does svn fit into these schemes? I prefer to use 
> Eclipse/Windows development platform. Thanks much.
> Girish Joglekar
> _______________________________________________