A comprehensive step-by-step guide to modelling family history using advanced OWL 2 features.

Please refer to the errata for each version before asking questions about the tutorial.

The original version of this tutorial is kept here for reference.

Written by Robert Stevens, Margaret Stevens, Nicolas Matentzoglu and Simon Jupp.

This tutorial was realised as part of the Semantic Web Authoring Tool (SWAT) project, which is supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant EP/G032459/1, to the University of Manchester, the University of Sussex and the Open University.

 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

 

About the tutorial

The Manchester Family History Advanced OWL tutorial covers many OWL 2 language features and assumes that the reader is already familiar with the language basics, covered by the Protégé OWL Tutorial (aka the Pizza Tutorial). In that sense, the FHKB tutorial, despite being autonomous all by itself, can be seen as directly building on the Pizza tutorial.

The full FHKB

This is the full Family History Knowledge Base (FHKB), as created by this tutorial. Further down you can find intermediate snapshots as taken throught the chapters: >> Download here.

Downloads

Version	Download	Updated	Information	Errata
v1.0		7 March 2013	Original version of the Manchester FHKB Advanced OWL Tutorial.	No errata
v1.1		23 November 2015	Revised version of the FHKB tutorial.	No errata

FHKB Ontology Snapshots

Chapter	Download	Updated	Information
Chapter 2		23 November 2015	Adding some individuals to the FHKB
Chapter 3		23 November 2015	Ancestors and Descendants
Chapter 4		23 November 2015	Modelling the Person Class
Chapter 5		23 November 2015	Siblings in the FHKB
Chapter 6		23 November 2015	Individuals in Class Expressions
Chapter 7		23 November 2015	Data Properties in the FHKB
Chapter 8		23 November 2015	Cousins in the FHKB
Chapter 9		23 November 2015	Marriage in the FHKB
Chapter 10		23 November 2015	Extending the TBox
All		23 November 2015	ZIP containing all of the above.

Referencing the Family History tutorial

To cite the Manchester Family History Advanced OWL Tutorial please use:

@book{stevens_manchester_2013,
edition = {1.0},
title = {Manchester Family History Advanced {OWL} Tutorial},
url = {http://owl.cs.manchester.ac.uk/tutorials/fhkbtutorial/},
publisher = {University of Manchester},
author = {Stevens, Robert and Stevens, Margaret and Matentzoglu, Nicolas and Jupp, Simon},
year = {2013}
}