[seek-kr-sms] OWL question

[Rich Williams]

Hi Manu -

Yes you can.  It is entirely non-obvious and there has been a ton of traffic
on the subject on the Protege-owl mailing list.  Using the default Protege
import mechanism doesn't do what you want, as you found out.

David Kaplan has produced some instructions for doing what you want:
http://erizo.ucdavis.edu/~dmk/notes/Protege+OWL+Imports.html.  I think this
should get you going ok.  You need a recent Protege 2.1 beta and the 1.1
beta owl plugin.

Note also the use of ont-policy.rdf file to allow you to access local copies
of imported ontologies.  Here's Holger's original msg about that:
http://protege.stanford.edu/mail_archive/msg07547.html

Hopefully this will help.  If you need some further clarification, don't
hesitate to ask.

Rich

> -----Original Message-----
> From: seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org
> [mailto:seek-kr-sms-admin at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Manu Juyal
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:39 PM
> To: Shawn Bowers
> Cc: seek-kr-sms at ecoinformatics.org
> Subject: [seek-kr-sms] OWL question
>
>
> Hi Rich and Shawn
> I was wondering if we can reference other projects or ontologies
> in OWL as we
> used to do it in protege.
>
> For Example.. In Protege, when we include a project as reference in our
> project using "include project" from file menu, we can not make
> changes to the
> included project from our project( included project were shown by
> dim color).
> However, whenI tried to attempt the same in OWL, I realized that
> we can modify
> the included project.
>
> Did you also observe this? Does it have any implications on our
> ontologies?
>
>
> regards,
> Manu Juyal
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