WebProtege
WebProtégé
WebProtégé is a free, open source collaborative ontology development environment for the Web.
WebProtégé runs as a Web application. End users access it through their Web browsers. They do not need to download or install any software.
We encourage end users to use our hosted solution at: http://webprotege.stanford.edu
It provides the following features:
- Support for editing OWL 2 ontologies
- A default simple editing interface, which provides access to commonly used OWL constructs
- Full change tracking and revision history
- Collaboration tools such as, sharing and permissions, threaded notes and discussions, watches and email notifications
- Customizable user interface
- Customizable Web forms for application/domain specific editing
- Support for editing OBO ontologies
- Multiple file format upload and download (supported formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OBO, and others)
Use WebProtégé now on our Stanford-hosted server! http://webprotege.stanford.edu
LATEST ACTIVITY:
17th September 2013: WebProtege build 110 is available on GitHub.
12th August 2013: WebProtege source code is now on GitHub.
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25th April 2013: The new WebProtege is here!
- Upload your ontologies to the new WebProtege server: http://webprotege.stanford.edu
- New exciting features: simplified editing, improved collaboration support, OWL-API based, etc. Read more in the release notes.
- You may also download and install the new WebProtege
25th April 2013: The final release of WebProtege release 1.0 now available!
- The WebProtege 1.0 demo server has been moved to: http://wp-obs.stanford.edu
- Read how to move your ontologies to the new WebProtege server available on http://webprotege.stanford.edu
- We don't plan to further develop WebProtege 1.0, so please consider upgrading to the new WebProtege (see above). See release notes.
10th Oct 2012: WebProtege Webinar
- See the recorded NCBO webcast on publishing and editing OWL2 and OBO ontologies with the new WebProtege
Documentation
User's Guide
A short user guide with screencasts and screenshots describing the main user interface elements in WebProtégé.
Download and Install - Administrator's Guide
A step-by-step guide for site administrators who want to download and install WebProtégé.
Developer's Guide
A guide for developers who want to compile and run WebProtégé from an IDE.
About WebProtégé
WebProtégé is being actively developed by the Protégé team at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research.
References
- A WebProtege paper describing its architecture, features and use in real-world cases is published in the Semantic Web Journal, and is available here.
- Several papers describing the use of WebProtégé in real use cases can be found here.
How to cite WebProtégé
T. Tudorache, C.I. Nyulas, N.F. Noy, M.A. Musen. WebProtégé: A Collaborative Ontology Editor and Knowledge Acquisition Tool for the Web, Semantic Web Journal, IOS Press, 2011
Online version available here.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments, please post them on the WebProtégé mailing list.
