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The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications

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We introduce the OWL Plugin, a Semantic Web extension of the Protégé ontology development platform. The OWL Plugin can be used to edit ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), to access description logic reasoners, and to acquire instances for semantic markup. In many of these features, the OWL Plugin has created and facilitated new practices for building Semantic Web contents, often driven by the needs of and feedback from our users. Furthermore, Protégé’s flexible open-source platform means that it is easy to integrate custom-tailored components to build real-world applications. This document describes the architecture of the OWL Plugin, walks through its most important features, and discusses some of our design decisions.

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  • Design Pattern
  • Description Logic
  • Annotation Property
  • Ontology Design
  • Semantic Markup

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  1. Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford School of Medicine, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA, 94305-5479, USA

    Holger Knublauch, Ray W. Fergerson, Natalya F. Noy & Mark A. Musen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto,  

    Sheila A. McIlraith

  2. Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, GR 71110, Heraklion, Greece

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  3. AI Department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Frank van Harmelen

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Knublauch, H., Fergerson, R.W., Noy, N.F., Musen, M.A. (2004). The Protégé OWL Plugin: An Open Development Environment for Semantic Web Applications. In: McIlraith, S.A., Plexousakis, D., van Harmelen, F. (eds) The Semantic Web – ISWC 2004. ISWC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_17

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