Introduction to OWL tutorial 11th/12th November

[Simon Jupp]

Introduction to Implementing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

 

BioHealth Informatics group at the University of Manchester in partnership with NWeHealth are pleased to invite you to participate in their internationally renowned OWL Ontology tutorials.

 

It is to be hosted at the University of Manchester on 11 and 12 November 2009.

 

Abstract

This two-day introductory ‘hands-on’ workshop aims to provide attendees with both the theoretical foundations and practical experience to begin building OWL ontologies using the latest version of the Protégé-OWL tools (Protege4).  It is based on Manchester's well-known "Pizza tutorial" (see http://www.co-ode.org).

 

This tutorial will cover the main conceptual parts of OWL through the hands-on building of an ontology of pizzas and their ingredients. A series of exercises take attendees through the process of conceptualizing the toppings found on a pizza; the entry of this classification into the Protégé environment; the description of many types of pizza. All this is set in the context of using automatic reasoning to check the consistency of the growing ontology and to use the reasoner to make queries about pizzas. Since 2003 this tutorial, in various forms, has been given over 20 times and been attended by hundreds of budding ontologists.

 

Aims

The aims of this tutorial are to:

- understand the use of ontologies

- understand statements written in OWL;

- understand the role of automatic reasoning in ontology building;

- build an ontology and use a reasoner to draw inferences based on that ontology;

- gain experience in the Protégé 4 ontology building environment;

- gain insight into how OWL can play a role in semantic metadata.

 

 

Speakers

 

Simon Jupp is a Research Associate in the BioHealth Informatics group in The School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester. His main research areas include Ontologies, Semantic Web technologies and their application to the life sciences. 

 

Dr. Georgina Moulton is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Northwest Institute of BioHealth Informatics  (NIBHI). She develops and presents training and Continued Professional Development courses to national and international researchers from a range of disciplines.  Georgina has a background in Bioinformatics and Biochemistry.

 

Registration and Further Information

 

To register and further information for advertised tutorials, please visit the CO-ODE website at: http://www.nweh.org.uk/ViewCourses.aspx