WebProtege

WebProtégé

The new WebProtege with simplified editing and improved collaboration support

WebProtégé is a free, open source collaborative ontology development environment for the Web.

We encourage end users to use our hosted solution at: http://webprotege.stanford.edu. Alternatively, WebProtege can be downloaded and installed on your own server.

WebProtege 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 formats for upload and download of ontologies (supported formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OBO, and others)

Use WebProtégé now on our Stanford-hosted server! http://webprotege.stanford.edu

LATEST ACTIVITY:

3rd December 2013: The WebProtege talk at ISWC 2013 is available online.

17th September 2013: WebProtege build 110 is available on GitHub.

12th August 2013: WebProtege source code is now on GitHub.

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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.