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Protege Desktop User Documentation

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

Build status & release notes

The latest version of Protege Desktop is 5.0 beta:

• Release notes
• Installation instructions
• Download Protege 5.0

You may also download previous versions of Protege and read the complete list of release notes.

Bugs & feature requests

Before you report a bug or feature request, check the lists below 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

• Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor - a short guide to the interface
• Protege 4 User's Guide - a guide on how to use Protege to create, edit, and inspect ontologies
• Pizzas in 10 minutes: A demo of modeling shortcuts - a quickstart guide to creating your first OWL ontology
• A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools - a substantial guide to OWL and ontology engineering
• Cody Burleson's screencast version of the tutorial listed directly above (it would be great if he got some encouragement for part 6).
• A Description Logic Primer
• Brief introduction to ontologies, by Robert Stevens

Editor features

• Overview of features - a quick summary of the editor
• P4 views guide - a list of all of the default views that are distributed with P4
• P4 menu guide - all of the default menus explained in detail (with keyboard shortcuts)
• P4 preferences guide - customising P4 to your needs
• Naming and rendering of entities - a note on naming things in OWL and configuring P4 to support your naming conventions
• P4 expression editor - adding and editing OWL expressions in P4
• Manchester OWL Syntax - an overview of the default syntax used by P4
• DL Query tab - how to query using arbitrary class expressions in OWL
• Anonymous classes - support in P4 for class expressions
• OWL Imports - modular ontology support in OWL and P4.1
• Axiom annotations - how to annotate at axiom level in Protege 4
• Protege 4 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 P4 preferences problems
• Working with firewalls and proxies

Plugins

Finding plug-ins

• From build 104 P4 will find plugins and updates for you. See our Auto Update page.

• Plugins for Protege 4.x 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.

• CO-ODE Protege 4.x Plugins - the CO-ODE group at the University of Manchester is the biggest contributor of plug-ins to the Protege-OWL editor. This is a good place to go to download early releases and source code for CO-ODE developed plug-ins.

Advertising plug-ins

If you have developed a plug-in for Protege-OWL 4.x 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.