Hi, How can two Ontologies be merged in Protege and how to overcome same occurences of the same item ? Is it possible to import specified terms or classes with specified individuals ?Thanks a lot
Thanks a lot Anahita, Is it possible to import specific entities or indivduals from one ontology to another, how ? and what's the best protege version to work with, currently I'm working on version 4.3. Thanks
Unless you have special need for certain features that may be missing in newer versions of Protege, you should always try to use the latest Protege version (currently v 5.00. beta 17), which you can find on the Protege web site: http://protege.stanford.edu/
Regarding the import, there are many ways to do it. The most straight forward solution is the owl:import, which is a single statement in your ontology that makes the entire imported ontology accessible from the importing ontology. The other direct way, is to reuse in the importing ontologies the IRI of the entities from the imported ontology. Using the same IRI in both ontologies means that they refer to the exact same entity. Between these 2 ends there is a significant number of other solutions, which can help you achieve what you want. A recent discussion on this topic on the Protege user mailing list can give you some great ideas:
http://protege-project.136.n4.nabble.com/link-to-external-IRI-td4663260.html#a4663277
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