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Protege 4.x Documentation

This page contains a collection of links to documentation for end users of the Protege 4.x series.

Protege 4.0 is currently in alpha and we are interested in soliciting your feedback. We have set up a mailing list specifically for discussion about Protege 4.0. You can subscribe to the list via the list information page: http://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/p4-feedback.


General

Protege 4 "to do" list

Below is a "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


User Interface

Protege-OWL

Plug-ins

Protege-OWL

Viewing 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.

Adding 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.

Handling Problems with FaCT++ not Finding Libraries

In Progress... On some occasions FaCT++ will have problems

First checkout FaCT++ with the command line call: 

svn checkout http://factplusplus.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ factplusplus.

We now need to edit the Makefile.include to use the options associated with the correct version of gcc. First we find the version of gcc with the command line 

gcc -v

On my linux machine the result was 

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)

So I modified the Makefile.include so that the GENERAL_DEFINES were 

GENERAL_DEFINES = $(GCC_OPT_OPT) $(GCC_34_OPT) $(ALL_DEF)

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.
  • Consider an "Add Tab" feature in the Tabs menu that would allow users to add an empty tab (e.g., "My Tab"), and thus have a place to assemble personal layouts from a clean starting point. Perhaps provide a minimum of one empty "My Tab" in the user interface.
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