DATES: April 1-2, 2009
LOCALE: University of Manchester, UK

The BioHealth Informatics group at the University of Manchester and NIBHI 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 1st and 2nd April 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.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To register and further information for advertised tutorials, please visit the CO-ODE website at: http://www.co-ode.org/events/tutorials/