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Documentation

Protege-OWL Editor

• Protege-OWL FAQ
• Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor
• Overview of new features in the Protege-OWL editor
• Menu and keyboard shortcuts
• A short guide to Protege-OWL preferences
• Release Notes
• A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools (errata page)
• DL Query tab
• Manchester OWL Syntax
• OWL Imports

Protege 4.x Plug-ins

Finding Plugins

To see a listing of plug-ins specific to the Protege-OWL editor, go to the Wiki article for the 4.x version of the Protege-OWL editor. The list of "Compatible Plugins" on this page is the result of a semantic query that gathers all plug-ins that have declared themselves compatible with the 4.x version of the Protege-OWL editor.

The CO-ODE group at the University of Manchester is the biggest contributor of plug-ins to the Protege-OWL editor. As such, users may be interested to look at the Protege 4 Plugins page on the CO-ODE Web site, which a listing of only those plug-ins developed at the University of Manchester. This is a good place to go to download the source code for CO-ODE developed plug-ins.

Advertising Plugins

If you have developed a plug-in for Protege-OWL 4.0 and you would like to contribute it to the community, follow the following steps:

• Click the New Plugin Link. You may want to right click and choose a new window.
• Choose a name for the page that discusses the new plugin (e.g. "Sub Ontology Tab").
• Click "Add or Edit"
• Be sure to add "Protege-OWL" (exactly like so without the quotes) in the Works with field. Also give the plugin a type (commonly "Tab Widget").
• Fill in the other fields and save.
• Click the create new version and use the naming convention described. Without this step the plugin will not show up in the plugin list below.
• Make the plugin compatible with "Protege-OWL 4.0".
• When you are done save the page and make sure that your plugin shows up on the 4.x version of the Protege-OWL editor page. It seems for some reason this page often does not update for a while so you may need to come back later.

Some useful links when adding a plugin page to the wiki are the following:

• Organization Category shows all the types of organizations that are currently known. There are some duplicates already.
• Plugin Category is useful because it lists both the different plugin types (e.g. view, import, export, etc) and also has a list of all the plugins currently known.
• Person Category lists the people who are known to this ontology.

Status

Protege 4.x is currently in alpha and undergoing active development. We are due to release the first beta in Summer 2008.

Protege 4 "to do" list

Below is a high level "to-do" list of things that we are working on integrating into Protege 4. Please note that these items are not listed in any particular order of priority. If you have a question about the status of any line item, please post a message on the Protege 4 mailing list.

• Protege-Frames editor (currently we only have the OWL editor)
• Protege Web client
• Protege Services
• Client-server support
• Better SWRL support in the Protege-OWL editor
• Better modularization support
• Support for collaborative ontology development
• Forms and browser slot patterns in the Protege-OWL editor
• A database back-end

Wish list

To follow is list of considerations for improving Protege 4, its documentation, and/or this Wiki.

• Convert A Practical Guide Guide to Building Ontologies... to a collection of Wiki pages so that the guide can be more easily shared, searched, modified, commented on, referenced by section, extended, etc.