The Evolution of Protege: An Environment for Knowledge-Based Systems Development Export

@article{gennari03, abstract = {The Protege project has come a long way since Mark Musen first built the Protege metatool for knowledge-based systems in 1987. The original tool was a small application, aimed at building knowledge-acquisition tools for a few specialized programs in medical planning. From this initial tool, the Protege system has evolved into a durable, ex-tensible platform for knowledge-based systems development and research. The current version, Protege-2000, can be run on a variety of platforms, supports customized user-interface extensions, incorporates the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity (OKBC) knowledge model, interacts with standard storage formats such as relational databases, XML, and RDF, and has been used by hundreds of individuals and research groups. In this paper, we follow the evolution of the Prot\'{e}g\'{e} project through 3 distinct re-implementations. We describe our overall methodology, our design decisions, and the lessons we have learned over the duration of the project. We believe that our success is one of infra-structure: Protege is a flexible, well-supported, and robust development environment. Using Protege, developers and domain experts can easily build effective knowledge-based systems, and researchers can explore ideas in a variety of knowledge-based domains.}, author = {Gennari, J. H. and Musen, M. A. and Fergerson, R. and Grosso, W. E. and Crubezy, M. and Eriksson, H. and Noy, N. F. and Tu, S. W.}, citeulike-article-id = {121896}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nernst/papers/gennari-protege.pdf}, journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies}, keywords = {acquisition, knowledge, protege}, number = {1}, pages = {89--123}, posted-at = {2005-03-11 15:37:01}, priority = {0}, title = {The Evolution of Protege: An Environment for Knowledge-Based Systems Development}, url = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nernst/papers/gennari-protege.pdf}, volume = {58}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - gennari03 L3 - citeulike-article-id:121896 N2 - The Protege project has come a long way since Mark Musen first built the Protege metatool for knowledge-based systems in 1987. The original tool was a small application, aimed at building knowledge-acquisition tools for a few specialized programs in medical planning. From this initial tool, the Protege system has evolved into a durable, ex-tensible platform for knowledge-based systems development and research. The current version, Protege-2000, can be run on a variety of platforms, supports customized user-interface extensions, incorporates the Open Knowledge Base Connectivity (OKBC) knowledge model, interacts with standard storage formats such as relational databases, XML, and RDF, and has been used by hundreds of individuals and research groups. In this paper, we follow the evolution of the Protégé project through 3 distinct re-implementations. We describe our overall methodology, our design decisions, and the lessons we have learned over the duration of the project. We believe that our success is one of infra-structure: Protege is a flexible, well-supported, and robust development environment. Using Protege, developers and domain experts can easily build effective knowledge-based systems, and researchers can explore ideas in a variety of knowledge-based domains. IS - 1 JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies EP - 123 TI - The Evolution of Protege: An Environment for Knowledge-Based Systems Development VL - 58 SP - 89 KW - acquisition KW - knowledge KW - protege AU - Gennari, JH AU - Musen, MA AU - Fergerson, R AU - Grosso, WE AU - Crubezy, M AU - Eriksson, H AU - Noy, NF AU - Tu, SW PY - 2003/// UR - http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nernst/papers/gennari-protege.pdf ER -