Latest revision as of 14:19, December 22, 2021

Protege Desktop User Documentation

This page is the official documentation home for the Protege Desktop application versions 4, 5 and higher.

Build status & release notes

The latest version of Protege Desktop is 5.5:

• Release notes
• Installation instructions
• Download latest version of Protege

You may also download previous versions of Protege and read the complete list of release notes. Older Protege 5.0 beta release notes are available here.

Bugs & feature requests

Before you report a bug or feature request, check the Protege mailing lists archives to ensure it hasn't already been reported. If the item is not currently open or you have further information or a question about an existing item, please post a message on the protege-user mailing list. Give as much detail as possible (including examples or ontologies if possible) as this will help us track things down more quickly.

Current GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/protegeproject/protege/issues?state=open

Frequently asked questions

We've put together a wiki page to answer the most commonly asked questions about Protege Desktop.

Getting started / tutorials

The Getting started and tutorials have been moved to the main page of the wiki.

Editor features

• Overview of features - a quick summary of the editor
• Protege views guide - a list of all of the default views that are distributed with Protege
• Protege menu guide - all of the default menus explained in detail (with keyboard shortcuts)
• Protege preferences guide - customizing Protege to your needs
• Naming and rendering of entities - a note on naming things in OWL and configuring Protege to support your naming conventions
• Protege expression editor - adding and editing OWL expressions in Protege
• Manchester OWL Syntax - an overview of the default syntax used by Protege
• DL Query tab - how to query using arbitrary class expressions in OWL
• OWL Imports - modular ontology support in OWL and Protege
• Axiom annotations - how to annotate at axiom level in Protege
• Protege OWL Diff - compare two versions of an ontology

Advanced features

• The Bean Shell - Making complex queries against an ontology.
• The Protege 4 Server

Further setup / configuration

• Adding more memory
• Double-clicking on OWL files
• Dealing with Protege preferences problems
• Working with firewalls and proxies

Plugins

Finding plug-ins

• Protege will find plugins and updates for you. See our Auto Update page.

• Plugins for Protege - the list of all plugins compatible with different versions is available here.

• CO-ODE Protege Plugins - the CO-ODE group at the University of Manchester is the biggest contributor of plug-ins to the Protege editor. The CO-ODE plugins that are compatible with your installation of Protege will show up when going in the File menu -> Check for plugins

Advertising plug-ins

If you have developed a plug-in for Protege and you would like to contribute it to the community, please see contributing plugins.

Contributing

Please see this page for details on how you can contribute.