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Protege 4 User 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 beta 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.
Contents
- 1 Protege 4 FAQ
- 2 Protege-OWL Editor
- 2.1 Protege-OWL FAQ
- 2.2 Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor
- 2.3 Overview of new features in the Protege-OWL editor
- 2.4 Menu Guide (and keyboard shortcuts)
- 2.5 A short guide to Protege-OWL preferences
- 2.6 A quick demonstration of quick modelling shortcuts
- 2.7 A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools
- 2.8 DL Query tab
- 2.9 Manchester OWL Syntax
- 2.10 OWL Imports
- 2.11 Naming and rendering of entities
- 2.12 Axiom Annotations
- 2.13 Adding more memory
- 2.14 Double-clicking on OWL files
- 3 Protege 4 Plugins
- 4 Protege 4 Status
- 5 Contributing to Protege 4
Protege 4 FAQ
We have put together a wiki page to answer the most commonly asked questions about the 4.x series of the Protege application:
Protege 4 Frequently Asked Questions
Protege-OWL Editor
Protege-OWL FAQ
Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor
Overview of new features in the Protege-OWL editor
Menu Guide (and keyboard shortcuts)
A short guide to Protege-OWL preferences
A quick demonstration of quick modelling shortcuts
A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools
Please note that we are actively maintaining an errata page for the above mentioned tutorial.
DL Query tab
Manchester OWL Syntax
OWL Imports
Naming and rendering of entities
Axiom Annotations
Adding more memory
Double-clicking on OWL files
Protege 4 Plugins
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
Protege 4 Status
Beta announcement
We are pleased to announce that Protege 4 transitioned from alpha to beta on August 22, 2008. (Read More)
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 itself, Protege 4 documentation, and 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 to Protege 4
Please see this page for details on how you can contribute.
