# What's the quickest way to get start with an OWL ontology in Stardog?

**URL:** <https://community.stardog.com/t/whats-the-quickest-way-to-get-start-with-an-owl-ontology-in-stardog/750>\
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**Created:** [December 29, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/whats-the-quickest-way-to-get-start-with-an-owl-ontology-in-stardog/750 "2017-12-29T22:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![marlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@marlon](https://community.stardog.com/u/marlon)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/whats-the-quickest-way-to-get-start-with-an-owl-ontology-in-stardog/750/1 "2017-12-29T22:25:15Z")

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Hello, I am evaluating and testing out StarDog. I created an OWL ontology in Protege, and I want to know what’s easiest way to load the ontology into StarDog and query on the ontology.

I read the documentation and had a question: Is there a direct way to load the Protege OWL ontology into StarDog? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![pavel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/pavel/32/18_2.png) [@pavel](https://community.stardog.com/u/pavel)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2017, 9:00am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/whats-the-quickest-way-to-get-start-with-an-owl-ontology-in-stardog/750/2 "2017-12-30T09:00:41Z")

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Hi Marlon,

First thing you need to do is to have Protege save your ontology in an RDF-based format (Turtle, N-Triples, RDF/XML, etc). Then the resulting file can be added into a Stardog database like any other RDF document, for example, by using the `stardog data add` CLI command.

Your ontology will be automatically made available to your queries. Just run your queries as usual and they'll be executed w.r.t. the ontology.

See [Home | Stardog Documentation Latest](http://www.stardog.com/docs/#_using_reasoning) for more details.

Best,  
Pavel

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/stardog/original/2X/e/ed66b48a616f505106a4acde3c9cee7e6da9bc67.svg) [@system](https://community.stardog.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2018, 9:01am UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/whats-the-quickest-way-to-get-start-with-an-owl-ontology-in-stardog/750/3 "2018-01-13T09:01:00Z")

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