A brief survey of Creating Semantic Web content with Protégé

An ontology development tool is often the first thing that people get to see when they venture into the Semantic Web field. Ontology editors and visualization tools therefore carry a special responsibility for the success of the Semantic Web community. At the same time, the user communities around such tools serve as melting pots which can be exploited to collect feedback on the overall design of the language and associated systems. Protege is one of the most used development platforms for ontology-based systems. This paper report on the experiences of using Protege with OWL. The intention of the Protege and specially Protege Plugin is to make Semantic Web technology available to a broad group of developers and users, and to promote best practices and design patterns. In this document we walk through a selection of these issues and suggest directions for future work and standardization efforts.