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. 2015 Jun;1(4):4-12.
doi: 10.1145/2757001.2757003.

The Protégé Project: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Mark A Musen  1 ; Protégé Team
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The Protégé Project: A Look Back and a Look Forward

Mark A Musen et al. AI Matters. 2015 Jun.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
The Protégé 5 Desktop System. The figure shows the most recent version of the Protégé system used to edit the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus. In the Figure, the user has selected the class Antigen Gene. The visualization displays the relationships among the selected class and other classes in its neighborhood.
Figure 2
Figure 2
WebProtégé. The Web-based version of Protégé offers users and their collaborators the opportunity to share and edit ontologies online, much like a Google doc. Here we see the Ontology for Parasite Lifecycle (OPL), an ontology developed by a community of scientists who investigate malaria, toxoplasmosis, and other diseases caused by eukaryotic pathogens (Parikh et al., 2012). In the left-hand pane, the user has selected the class blood. The middle pane shows the properties of the selected class. The right-most pane reveals an audit trail and a threaded discussion regarding the modeling of this entity.
Figure 3
Figure 3
The OPAL system for entry of cancer-chemotherapy knowledge. In the figure, the user is accessing a domain-specific form to indicate what domain action to take if, when administering a chemotherapy combination known as “VAM,” the patient’s serum bilirubin is measured to be greater than 2.0 mg/dl. OPAL had dozens of such forms, as well as a flowcharting facility used to specify the sequences of chemotherapies and drugs to administer when treating a particular kind of cancer.
Figure 4
Figure 4
A Protégé-1 form for entry of classes of task-level actions. Here, the user is entering into a domain-independent form the kinds of actions that a planner should take in the setting of different situations involving the input data provided to the runtime system. The actions correspond to the entries in the menu displayed by the OPAL program in Figure 3. Protégé-1 had dozens of such forms with which a user could specify the domain model for a customizable knowledge-acquisition tool that had much of the functionality of OPAL.
Figure 5
Figure 5
The Protégé-II ontology editor. Built under the NeXTSTEP operating system, Protégé-II was the first version of Protégé to include a separate ontology editor. Here, the user is specifying that physicians have pager-numbers of data type string.
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