Investigating Worldviews with Protégé

This paper offers a discussion of the usefulness of the ontology editor Protégé 5.0 as a tool for working with qualitative data. As an illustration we focus on an ongoing research project on the worldviews and beliefs of three groups of religious and spiritual professionals in Denmark. It is argued that the use of Protégé in this case can provide important new insights. It is also argued that Protégé can reveal unforeseen relations and give rise to interesting questions for further research. However, it is finally argued that this Protégé approach can only catch some of the aspects of a worldview.