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Welcome to the Protégé wiki!

WebProtégé - a powerful collaborative ontology development environment for the Web

Protégé Desktop - a fully-fledged OWL 2 ontology editor for the desktops

Protégé is a free, open-source platform that provides a growing user community with a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies.

Quick links: WebProtégé server, Protégé Desktop download and release notes, Source code on GitHub, Protégé website

User Documentation

WebProtégé

• Overview
• User's Guide
• Administrator's Guide - download and installation instructions
• Use WebProtégé now on our Stanford-hosted server: http://webprotege.stanford.edu

Protégé Desktop

• Protégé Desktop documentation (release notes, installation instructions, Protege 5.0 download, older Protege releases download)
• Previous Protégé Desktop releases (version 3.x)

Ontology Development

• Ontology Development 101: A Guide to creating your first ontology
• Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group's Semantic Web Tutorials page
• Protégé OWL Tutorial: A step-by-step guide to modeling in OWL using the popular Protégé OWL tools

Developer Documentation

WebProtégé

• Developer's Guide

Protégé Desktop

• Protégé Desktop 5.x
• Protégé Desktop 4.x
• Protégé Desktop 3.x
• Using and configuring Protégé's Ant build scripts
• Guide to Quality Assurance

Download and Support

To download Protégé or WebProtégé please visit our homepage. To use the WebProtégé server hosted at Stanford, please go to: http://webprotege.stanford.edu.

To find out about the different support options, for example, how to subscribe to our mailing lists, please visit the Support page.

Follow our YouTube channel featuring screencasts showing different features of Protégé and WebProtégé.

Wiki Help

If you are new to using a Wiki, please see the Help page page for links to User's Guides, etc.

The Help page also has suggestions for where to find help with using the Protégé application.