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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.

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
• A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools (errata page)
• DL Query tab
• Manchester OWL Syntax
• OWL Imports
• Naming and rendering of entities
• Double clicking on owl files (temporary)

Protege 4.x Plug-ins

Finding Plugins

• 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 Plugins

If you have developed a plug-in for Protege-OWL 4.0 and you would like to contribute it to the community, please see Contributing plugins

Status

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

Release notes

To help you decide whether to update, release notes exist for all updates to each successive release.

Bugs and feature requests

If you have a new request or potential bug, please first check the lists below as it may have 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 4 mailing list.

Please give as much detail as possible (including examples or ontologies if possible) as this will help us track things down more quickly.

• Feature request tracker - a searchable list of features that have been requested (and implemented)

• Bugtracker - a searchable list of reported and resolved bugs

Documentation TODO 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.

Contributing

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