Initializing the Prompt Tab

Once you have enabled your project to use
the Prompt tab, you can compare, merge, or extract projects and move frames
between projects by initializing the tab. If you are moving frames from
an included to an including project, the projects are not changed at this point;
however, both projects will be altered later, when you actually save the working
project after you have moved selected frames.
To initialize PROMPT:
- If you have created a new project, and you have not yet saved it, save it
before you initialize PROMPT. This will tell PROMPT where to store
its log.
- Click the Prompt tab. If the Prompt Tab displays a window with subtabs and
options, then it has already been initialized. If the Prompt tab does not
appear, you need to enable PROMPT in your project first. See Enabling
the Prompt Tab for more information.
- Choose what you would like to do from the list of options
- Select the desired operation from the pull down menu:
- Click the
button(s)
to select the file(s) you want to use. For merge
modes, you need to select two files. For compare,
extract and move
frames modes, you need to select one file. See the descriptions of each
mode for more information.
- To help you keep track of your ontologies, PROMPT attaches a suffix to each
frame in the projects you pull in in some of the modes. This suffix, the "Alias",
that indicates the source project of the frame. By default, it is usually
the name of the original project, except in the case of compare, where the
two files are called "old" and "new". To edit this
suffix, simply edit the text in the Alias entry box. Note that once
you have finished making all the changes in your project, you can remove suffixes
using the Prompt menu.
- If you are merging large ontologies (several thousand frames each), you
can disable the Compare sources option. Normally, if you have selected
merge, Protégé will load all the frames from both ontologies into your working
memory. For most merges, this default behavior is the best option. However,
if the original ontologies are extremely large, this can be very expensive,
consuming a lot of resources. You can limit the scope of the merge by deselecting
the Compare sources option. This option is valuable if Protégé hangs
during your merge.
- Once you have made all your selections, click OK to initialize PROMPT.
Once PROMPT has been initialized, Protégé loads the appropriate
information from the source files and prepares its suggestions. The Prompt tab
changes to reflect the choices you made during initialization.
Next: Merge Mode
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