Protégé in a nutshell

Protégé is a powerful open-source ontology development platform for semantic web.

Protégé development environments

• Protégé Desktop
  • Prerequisite: JAVA 8 or later
  • full features support
  • single workplace
• WebProtégé
  • less features
  • cloud-based collaborative ontology development
• Protégé 5 Server
  • local web instance
  • allows 5 clients, such as ProtégéDesktop
  • SVN enabled

Before diving into it, here are the tips for creating an ontology

Protégé demo

• annotate ontology metadata, using an ontology template
• create classes, object/data/annotation properties, individuals
• add restrictions*
• reasoning*
• export ontology

Further readings

• A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies
• OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Manchester Syntax