- A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology - Introductory paper by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness, from Stanford University. Provides guidelines and examples using Protégé-2000.
- A Guided Tour to Developing Ontologies Using Ontolingua - An introduction both to developing ontologies and to using the Ontolingua Ontology Editor provided by the Stanford KSL Network Services.
- Description Logics - Tutorial given by Ian Horrocks and Ulrike Sattler at ECAI-2002, Lyon, France, July 2002. [PDF]
- Description Logics Course - Provides description and slides from a course given by Carsten Lutz and Ulrike Sattler at ESSLLI 2002, Trento, Italy.
- Ontologies: Definitions, Components, Subtypes - Published by SRI, a basic introduction using examples in biochemistry. [PPT format]
- Protégé OWL Plugin User's Guide - A brief introduction written for novice users and experts who wish to upgrade to OWL.
- Tutorial on OWL - An introduction to OWL by Sean Bechhofer, Ian Horrocks and Peter F. Patel-Schneider, in the forms of a set of PDF documents and PPT presentations.
