How to extend the ontology with other standard ontologies in Protégé?

Question

I create an ontology using Protégé, but I want to extend it with other standard ontologies, such as frbr, prov and org. Is there a standard way to integrate our ontology with these standard ontologies, or can we combine these ontologies with each other? I want to complete these tasks with Protégé.

Answer 1

If I am missing something about your question (which actually did not provide enough information to diagnose the problem that you actually have), this is required owl:imports. You can import other (OWL) ontologies into your own. In Protégé, you simply use the Ontology import on the Active Ontology tab to specify the ontologies you want to import.

Remember that Protégé is an OWL tool, so if you are importing something with this function, it should also be an OWL ontology. You will have mixed luck if you try to import RDF (S) dictionaries. For example, you can get properties, but as properties of annotations, not properties of an object and data type.

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