Loading Ontologies Into Protégé-2000

Protégé-2000 is a editing tool written in Java. It should run on any computer with Java version 1.3 installed (note that Mac OS 9 does not support Java 1.3).

To set up your machine to edit the ontologies in Protégé, follow these steps:

1. (If necessary) Download and install Java 1.3 JRE from Sun Note: Protégé support of Java 1.4 is still experimental.
2. Download and install Protégé Note: Stanford Medical Informatics requires free registration to download Protégé.
3. Create a working directory for the ontology files and copy all the files from the appropriate directory (there should be 9 Habronattus ontology files and 9 (different) files for the loggerhead ontology).
4. Start Protege and open the appropriate project file:
   • For Habronattus californicus load californicus_b.pprj
   • For Loggerhead turtles load Hailman_and_Elowson1992.pprj
   The remaining files will be included automatically. The Loggerhead files have been edited using Protégé-2000 version 1.9 and have been loaded successfully into a beta version of Protégé 2.0.

All ontologies on this site and content of this page are copyright 2001-2003 Peter E. Midford (peteremidford@yahoo.com).
Last update of this page: 7 November 2003