Mastering Ontology Engineering with Protege and Pizza.owl teaches ontology engineering the way most tutorials don't: hands-on, in Protege, using the well-known Pizza.owl domain, and connected the whole way through to a modern framework for building executable semantic systems.
Volume 1 is where you start. You'll install Protege, learn to navigate its workspace, and build the Pizza ontology from nothing: classes, named classes, a working reasoner, disjoint classes, and a look at what actually lives inside the RDF/XML file once you hit save. Chapter 00 also introduces the Executable Knowledge Architecture (EKA) framework, a five-layer model that this entire four-volume series builds toward, so that by the end you're not just modeling concepts, you're designing systems that act on them.
This is not a dry reference. Every chapter pairs a YouTube walkthrough with the matching eBook chapter and hands-on Protege exercises, so you watch, read, and practice in the same pass.
In this volume you'll learn to:
- Install and confidently navigate Protege
- Build class hierarchies and named classes that hold up under reasoning
- Run a reasoner and tell asserted knowledge apart from inferred knowledge
- Use disjoint classes to catch logical errors before they propagate
- Read and understand the RDF/XML underneath any OWL ontology
- Map foundational ontology work onto the EKA framework
This edition includes forewords by Timothy W. Cook (Founder, Semantic Data Charter) and Michael DeBellis, whose original Protege OWL Pizza Tutorial is the foundation this series builds on, plus their ongoing technical review credited throughout the book.
No prior ontology experience required. Volumes 2 through 4 (and more) continue the series.
