Protege Ontology Library
Welcome to the Protege Ontology Library!
This page is organized into the following groupings:
- OWL ontologies
- Frame-based ontologies
- Ontologies in other formats (e.g., DAML+OIL, RDF Schema, etc.)
If your ontology is available in multiple formats, please feel free to link to it from multiple sections.
Please make insertions in alphabetical order. Thank you !!!
OWL ontologies
Information on how to open OWL files from the Protege-OWL editor is available on the main Protege Web site. See the Creating and Loading Projects section of the Getting Started with Protege-OWL Web page. Other ways to search for OWL ontologies include using Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype:owl+owl, or the new Semantic Web search engine called Swoogle.
- AIM@SHAPE Ontologies: Ontologies pertaining to digital shapes. Source: AIM@SHAPE NoE - Advanced and Innovative Models And Tools for the development of Semantic-based systems for Handling, Acquiring, and Processing knowledge Embedded in multidimensional digital objects.
- amino-acid.owl: A small OWL ontology of amino acids and their properties. Source: Amino Acid Ontology Web site.
- bhakti.owl: An OWL ontology for the transcendental states of consciousness experienced by practitioners of bhakti-yoga, a form of Vedic consciousness engineering.
- Biochemical Ontologies: Over 30 ontologies for knowledge representation and reasoning across scientific domains. Ontologies are normalized into non-disjoint primitive skeletons and complex class expressions for DL reasoning. Ontologies describe atoms, bonds, molecules, macromolecules and the processes they participate in.
- BioPAX: An OWL ontology for biological pathways, which is primarily used to exchange data between pathway resources.
- BIRNLex: An ontology created by and for the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) in order to provide a shared semantic framework in which to annotate BIRN data related to multi-resolutional, cross-species studies of neurodegenerative disease. BIRNLex follows the OBO Foundry best practices and makes use of other OWL-based OBO ontologies.
- BreastCancerOntology: An OWL ontology for describing some features of Breast Cancer; Basic model is stable, but still being fleshed out.
- camera.owl: An OWL ontology about the individual parts of a photo camera. Source: XFront OWL Tutorial.
- camera2.owl: An improved OWL camera ontology based on above one from Roger L. Costello. Contributed by Igor Bessmertnyy.
- Cardiology.owl: An ontology to present various cardiology diseases, their symptoms, tests, and complications. Contributed by Rishi.
- Cell Cycle Ontology (CCO): An application ontology for the cell cycle process.
- Cinema Chain Ontology: An ontology for modelling cinemas that have screenings of films. Contributed by Connor McCabe
- CN Ontology: An OWL ontology presenting the concepts used in collaborative networked organizations with focus on Virtual Organizations Breeding Environment.
- CIDOC CRM Erlangen Implementation: An OWL DL ontology implementing the CIDOC CRM (ISO 21127:2006).
- Colors : Color list (690 elements) with standard color representation values (RGB, HSV, etc.) in OWL format. Built from the list found in Wikipedia on the 6th of june 2010. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
- consciousness1.owl: An OWL ontology showing the transcendental background for consciousness according to the ancient Vedic literature.
- Context.owl: An OWL ontology presenting a generic context model that can be used for describing the structure and elements of context aware systems. It is developed in the context of LoCa, a Swiss National Research Project. Contributed by Thorsten Möller.
- countries.owl: The ISO 3166 Code List of countries. Contributed by Dieter E. Jenz.
- Daycare.swrl.owl: A demo ontology about a childcare center showing the use of SWRL for reasoning. Contributed by Jane Peace.
- Delegation Ontology: An OWL ontology to describe delegation concepts in the context of Grid computing.
- Dependable Systems Ontology: Ontology about resilient and dependable systems including threats, failures, faults and errors as used in the ReSIST project.
- Dietas: Esto es una ontología en OWL no terminada que simula un dietista.
- DOLCE: The Dolce foundational ontology and its extensions provide a domain-independent framework to build ontologies on the basis of highly-reusable patterns. Contributed by Aldo Gangemi.
- Education Ontology: Ontology for the Minnesota Department of Education based on the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) structures and ISO/IEC 11179 standards. This domain includes information about K-12 students, teachers, schools, districts, enrollments, assessments, USDA food and nutrition programs, and on-line courses. Includes approximately 400 data elements. A case study will be presented at the Semantic Technology conference in March 2006. Feedback -> http://www.danmccreary.com.
- EHROntology: An Electronic Health Records ontology based on openEHR work. Contributed by Isabel Roman Martinez.
- Einstein's riddle: Have you ever tried to solve the famous Einstein's logic puzzle? It is claimed that only 2% of the world's population can solve it! A Description Logic reasoner can do it for you just in one click. Here you find a formulation of the puzzle in ALCOIF description logic. It contains the original formulation of the puzzle from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_puzzle. For convenience, all key axioms in the ontology are provided with annotation, a corresponding condition of the puzzle. Just classify this ontology in Protege and get a solution by clicking on individuals! Contributed by Denis Ponomaryov.
- Engineering Design Ontologies: A suite of ontologies developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for representing different aspects of the product development process.
- ESG: An ontology describing very large simulation datasets and related information for climate sciences such as those found in the Earth System Grid project. Contributed by Line Pouchard.
- family.swrl.owl: A SWRL/OWL demo ontology about family relationships . Contributed by Christine Golbreich.
- Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Model Ontology (FEA-RMO): Representation of Federal Enterprise Architecture in OWL.
- Finance: an ontology on financial instruments, involved parties, processes and procedures in securtities handling. Contributed by Eddy Vanderlinden.
- fgdc-csdgm.owl: Ontology for Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) of Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). Contributed by Akm Saiful Islam, Bora Beran, Volkan Yargici, and Michael Piasecki.
- fsm.owl: A simple ontology for finite state machines. Contributed by Peter Dolog.
- FOAF Ontology: An ontology describes people, the links between them and the things they create and do. Contributed by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller.
- generations.owl: An ontology about family relationships that demonstrates classification. Contributed by Matthew Horridge.
- Geographic Information Metadata - ISO 19115: An ontology representing Geographic Information Metadata - (ISO 19115).
- GeoSkills: an ontology representing the mathematics competencies, topics, and educational levels for schools of Europe. See the page about GeoSkills.
- hu.owl: A hierarchic division of hydrologic units. Contributed by Luis Bermudez.
- Infrastructure Product Ontology: An OWL ontology for utility infrastructure products, their attributes, mechanisms, and measures. Products span all five sectors of utilities (Water, Wastewater, Gas, Electricity, and Telecom).
- iso-metadata.owl: Several ISO Geographic Information Ontologies developed with the Protege-OWL editor. Contributed by Akm Saiful Islam, Bora Beran, Luis Bermudez, Stephane Fellah & Michael Piasecki.
- ka.owl: Defines concepts from academic research. Contributed by Ian Horrocks.
- koala.owl: A simple ontology about humans and marsupials. Contributed by Holger Knublauch.
- leo.owl: A simple ontology about life events within e-Government. Contributed by Domen Cukjati.
- LKIF Core: A core ontology of basic legal concepts. Contributed by Rinke Hoekstra.
- Monetary_ontology_0.1d.zip: A zipped Protégé project of an ontology for currency creation and use. Also contains an "owl". The objective is an active description of all forms of "money" from barter to clearing systems, from precious metal coinage to debt-based fiat. It is oriented towards designers of payment systems and community currency systems. Here is a preview GIF image ! First begun 2008/05/04 and last updated 2008/05/12. v0.0 Contributed by Martin "Hasan" Bramwell
- [MCDM ontology]: An ontology of utility functions, for purposes of Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). See the SeMCDM project.
- MGEDOntology.owl: An ontology for microarray experiments in support of MAGE v.1. Source: MGED Society.
- [MOST ontology]: An ontology of the Media-oriented Systems Transport (MOST). See the SeMCDM project.
- NCI Thesaurus: A huge ontology developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Source: NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services.
- New Testament Names: A semantic knowledge base describing named things (people, places, and other classes) in the New Testament, as well as their attributes and relationships. It includes both an ontology and a substantial amount of instance data. NTNames is part of SemanticBible.org.
- NMS-DomainOntology: A Domain Ontology for the TCP/IP-based SNMP-managed Communication Network Management System. Contributed by: Sameera Abar
- not-galen.owl: A selective adaptation made in 1995 of an early prototype GALEN model; content is not related to or representative of any current or historical OpenGALEN release. Contributed by Ian Horrocks.
- office-env1.owl,office-env2.owl: Ontologies for office environment. Contributed by Prakash Kadel
- OGC: Ontology for Geography Markup Language (GML3.0) of Open GIS Consortium (OGC). Contributed by Contributors: Zafer Defne, Akm Saiful Islam and Michael Piasecki.
- OMG - Meta Object Facility: Ontology representation of the OMG-MOF generated from the OMG Specification (XMI).
- OMG - MOF - Query, View, and Transformations: Ontology representation of the OMG-MOF-QVT generated from the OMG Specification (XMI).
- OMG - Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM): Ontology representation of the OMG-ODM generated from the OMG Specification (XMI).
- OMG - Unified Modeling Language (UML2): Ontology representation of the OMG-UML2 generated from the OMG Specification (XMI).
- OntoClean: Representation of OntoClean meta-properties and corresponding constraints as a Protege ontology and a set of PAL constraints.
- OntoCAPE: A large-scale ontology for the domain of chemical process engineering. OntoCAPE is partitioned into 62 sub-ontologies, which can be used individually or as an integrated suite. The sub-ontologies cover high-level topics, such as mereotopology, systems theory, quantities and units, as well as domain-specific topics such as materials, chemical reactions, or unit operations.
- OntoTool: An ontology that is used to model Task and Tool features for project realization. This ontology contains essential concepts about the relationship between task and tool and frequently asked questions about tool identification.
- OSM - Ontology for Support and Management: An ontology that contains all constructs required for the various versions of the Ontology for Support and Search Engine Optimization Management of pervasive services by using ontology-based policy mechanisms run by IST-Context project and the research extensions towards Onto-Context framework to demonstrate advantages when context information is used for controlling management operations.
- people+pets.owl: From the ISWC03 tutorial on OWL by Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks, and Peter Patel-Schneider.
- Performance Ontology: It represents of UML-SPT profile but updates with semantic information and integrates other performance representations. By SWAP Group.
- Petrinet Semantic Web Infrastructure: Contributed by Dragan Gasevic.
- PhiloSurfical ontology: An ontology which extends CIDOC-CRM and describes various dimensions normally associated to the philosophical domain (people, documents, ideas, events). Contributed by Michele Pasin, in the context of the PhiloSURFical project.
- Pizzas: The OWL ontology used in the Protege-OWL Tutorial. Contributed by The CO-ODE Project.
- Pr/T net Ontology: An ontology for high-level Petri nets.
- PPOntology: An OWL ontology for cereal plant protection. Currently, it is developed to encompass the field of diagnosis and treatment of barley disorders.
- Protein Ontology: Protein Ontology or PO provides a unified vocabulary for capturing declarative knowledge about protein domain and to classify that knowledge to allow reasoning. Contributed by Amandeep S. Sidhu.
- SaOn-Software Application Ontology: An example ontology for searching, retrieving and using software applications, components.
- [SeMCDM ontology]: The kernel ontology for Semantic Multi-Criteria Decision Making (SeMCDM). See the SeMCDM project.
- shuttle-crew-ont.owl: An ontology about the crew from a space shuttle. Source: Dynamic Research Corporation.
- SNP-Ontology: An ontology to represent genomic variations, and related concepts. Contributed by Adrien Coulet.
- Sort Ontology: Sort ontology is a model of ontologies where ontological classes are represented as sorts with the principles of identity and individuation. The model consists of four meta-classes: TypeSort, QuasitypeSort, RoleSort, and PhaseSort. It is intended to enrich the semantics of ontological classes by embedding abstract-level domain independent knowledge (called meta-knowledge) into OWL ontologies.
- Spoken Dialogue Ontology - An ontology for creating spoken dialogues: This ontology can be used to implement spoken dialogues and store the actual state of the dialogue. The corresponding spoken dialogue manager that interprets dialogues encoded as spoken dialogue ontologies and several dialogue examples can be found on OwlSpeak.
- Suggested Upper Merged Ontology: A comprehensive set of upper, middle and domain specific ontologies. A lossy translation as of 5/13/2009 from the original source in a version of Knowledge Interchange Format which is available at ontologyportal.org.
- Surface-Water-Model-Ontology: An ontology for surface water and water quality models currently exists based on the list provided SMIC, US Geological Survey using Protege. Contributed by Akm Saiful Islam.
- SVECore.owl: A core ontology for developing 3D Semantic Virtual Environments and a simple Domain Specific Ontology for creating a virtual bar (DSOBar.owl). Contributed by Francisco Grimaldo.
- SWEET Ontologies: A Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology. Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- tambis-full.owl: A biological science ontology developed by the TAMBIS project. Contributed by Ian Horrocks.
- Tool and Task: An ontology that is used to model Task and Tool features for project realization. Contributed by Marek Szlezak.
- Tourism.owl: An OWL ontology for creating Semantic Web sites related to tourism. Contributed by Tonya Kalinkina.
- travel.owl: A tutorial OWL ontology for a Semantic Web of tourism. Contributed by Holger Knublauch.
- Videogame's Elements Ontology: A videogame's elements ontology that is used to model different videogame's properties like playability. Contributed by José Luis González and Francisco Luis Gutiérrez Vela. University of Granada, Spain.
- WebOfPatterns: An OWL ontology for object-oriented software design. Used to represent design patterns, a Java client exists that can download these descriptions and scan code for pattern instances.
- wine.owl: An ontology of wines (demonstrates project inclusion). Original source: WebOnt OWL Guide.
- Wood Ontology — Contributed by Muhammad Abulaish and Lipika Dey.
- WFO.swrl.owl: A SWRL/OWL DL ontology about WorkFlow based on WFMC. Contributed by Soheil Qanbari.
Frame-based ontologies
In the context of this page, the phrase "frame-based ontologies" loosely refers to ontologies that were developed using the Protege-Frames editor. For more information on how to open an ontology from the Protege-Frames editor, see the Protege-Frames User's Guide.
- Abhay's Tetrapoda Ontology: A knowledge model and ontology for Tetrapoda Group
- Biological Processes: A knowledge model of biological processes and functions that is graphical, for human comprehension, and machine-interpretable, to allow reasoning.
- CEDEX: Representation of CEDEX in Protege. CEDEX is a base ontology for exchange and distributed use of ecological data.
- Dublin Core: Representation of Dublin Core metadata in Protege.
- Engineering ontologies: A set of ontologies for representing systems, their decomposition, connections, requirements and constraints
- The Essential Project: An ontology and knowledge base for describing any organisation's Enterprise Architecture, enabling reasoning and decision support. The Essential Project is the collective name for a set of free, open source, Enterprise Architecture support tools that have been developed for use in conjunction with a variety of Enterprise Architecture approaches and frameworks (including TOGAF).
- GandrKB (Gene annotation data representation): An ontology and knowledge base describing gene functions enabling biologists to annotate (multiple) genes on Affymetrix Microarrays per simple drag and drop. Annotation-concepts and genes can be linked for fast and intuitive context-exploration and extensive querying. Generated gene annotations can be interactively explored as semantic networks with advanced visualisation tools. Contributed by Daniel Schober.
- GeneOntologyInProtege: Knowledge acquisition, consistency checking, and concurrency control in Gene Ontology.
- Guideline Interchange Format (GLIF): Representation of GLIF in Protege.
- Health Level 7 Data Types and Top-Level RIM Classes: A Protege representation of the HL7 version 3 data types and top-level classes of the Reference Information Model. Contributed by Samson Tu.
- HELEN: The HELEN Guideline representation ontology.
- HL7-RIM: HL7-RIM as a Protege ontology. Contributed by Bhavna Orgun.
- IPTC Subject Reference System: RDF Schema and Protege ontology representations of the Subject Reference System.
- OntoClean: Representation of OntoClean meta-properties and corresponding constraints as a Protege ontology and a set of PAL constraints.
- Personal Computer - Do It Yourself (PC-DIY): An ontology which contains essential concepts about the personal computer and frequently asked questions about Personal Computer - Do It Yourself.
- Resource-Event-Agent Enterprise (REA): An ontology that is used to model economic aspects of e-business frameworks (e.g. in ebXML) and enterprise information systems.
- Science Ontology: A modified version of the KA² ontology describing research-related information.
- The Uniform Problem-solving Method development Language (UPML): An ontology and editor for modeling libraries of reusable (i.e., generic and adaptable) components of knowledge-based systems, namely tasks, problem-solving methods and domain models.
- Instituto Kuluwulu: This is a model to check the reliability of the Wiki Ontology Library. Sorry for this, but we had to do it XD. Por favor no tomen represalias, solo somos estudiantes con ganas de chequear este wiki. We love ontologies.
- Institutional ontology: Institutional Ontology is a model of a University/ Institute. This ontology is based on OWL-DL. Few instances is included to check its performance. Also a file called query.txt containing a list of query is provided. Contributed by Biswanath DuttaDRTC, Bangalore.
- Workflow ontology - A workflow ontology used to capture sequential and state-based workflows as instances in the ontology. Intended to be used by Collaborative_Protege.
Other ontology formats
- Dublin Core: Representation of Dublin Core metadata in Protege.
- HL7-RIM: HL7-RIM as a Protege ontology. Contributed by Bhavna Orgun.
- IPTC Subject Reference System: RDF Schema and Protege ontology representations of the Subject Reference System.
- Learner: An ontology describing Learner features used for personalization in eLearning systems. Created in the context of EU/IST project Elena.
- Petrinet Semantic Web Infrastructure: Contributed by Dragan Gasevic.
- Resource-Event-Agent Enterprise (REA): An ontology that is used to model economic aspects of e-business frameworks (e.g., in ebXML) and enterprise information systems.
- Universal Standard Products and Services Classification (UNSPSC): A coding system to classify both products and services for use throughout the global marketplace.