I took a couple of days off to drop my older daughter off at college. I had originally planned to be out of college before she got into college, but that didn’t happen. Now my goal is to graduate before she does. I hate losing the research time, but a couple of forced days off is a good thing. But as Plato said in Phaedrus, “The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the better return to thought, and to itself.” I take comfort in that, assuming that a break might help to focus my thoughts better.

So I spent some time today trying to populate my ontology with individuals, and it didn’t work quite as expected. I guess the Protege API isn’t as straightforward as I had hoped it would be. I could populate the ontology with individuals, but they wound up in the top level of the ontology and not in the parameter classes as I had expected. I guess I just need to spend some time playing with it to really understand how it works.