Geodise DAML + Oil Workshop

19-20 February 2002

Contact: Angus Roberts (angus@cs.man.ac.uk)

You can open the original pre-workshop homepage from here

Ontological engineering 101	Jeremy Rogers	Presentation (pdf) Presentation (powerpoint)
DAML + OIL and Description Logic reasoning	Ian Horrocks	Presesntation (pdf) Additional presentation material: DAML+Oil technical details (pdf) Additional material: a paper (with a comprehensive bibiography) on "Description Logics as Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web" (pdf)
Approach to building ontologies: a high-level view	Chris Wroe	Presentation (pdf) Presentation (powerpoint)
Using OilEd	lead by Chris Wroe and Sean Bechhofer	Tutorial exercise Tutorial models Version of oiled used in workshop (see http://img.cs.man.ac.uk/oil/ for the current version)
Issues: starting out	Jeremy Rogers	Presentation (pdf) Presentation (powerpoint)
Building a DAML+OIL ontology		Exercise (pdf) Exercise (powerpoint) Upper ontology Example solution (AR) Example solution (BT) Example solution (TC)
Issues: down the road	Jeremy Rogers	Presentation (pdf) Presentation (powerpoint)
Experiences of using DAML+OIL	facilitated by Robert Stevens	Knowledge engineering discussion Tutorial and exercise feedback

Alan Rector's paper on Untangling Taxonomies and Relationships, although not based on DAML+OIL and concentrating on medical ontologies, does however explore some of the issues and design decisions in large description logic ontologies
More specific to DAML+OIL is Alan Rector's paper on the Normalisation of Ontologies
Stanford's guide to Ontology Development, is geared towards Protege and frame based ontologies
Asunción Gómez-Pérez has a large collection of presentations overviewing ontology methodologies and engineering
February's Commuications of the ACM is a special issue on Ontologies. Visit the ACM and check on their Digital Library link

The Semantic Web site has a huge number of links
You can also download OilEd together with a brief manual and some examples
A paper (with a comprehensive bibiography) on "Description Logics as Ontology Languages for the Semantic Web" (pdf)
If you are interested in the formal languages and their definitions, you can get full details of the DAML+Oil and Oil from:

Attendance at the workshop was:

Angus Roberts
e-mail: angus@cs.man.ac.uk
'phone: 0161 275 6239