[seek-kr-sms] OWL question

Manu Juyal Manu.Juyal at asu.edu
Wed Mar 24 16:54:42 PST 2004


Thanks! Rich and Shawn

Your inputs were very helpful. I'll have some more questions later this week. 
I'll send them to you.

regards
Manu

Quoting Rich Williams <rwilliams at nceas.ucsb.edu>:

> 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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