ProtegeDesktopUserDocs

Protege 4 User Documentation

This page contains a collection of links to documentation for end users of the Protege 4.x series.

Please give us your feedback! We have a mailing list specifically for discussion about Protege 4.x. You can subscribe to the list via the list information page: http://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/p4-feedback.

16 Jun 2009: Protege 4.0 officially released! Read the release announcement.
22 Aug 2008: Protege 4.0 now in beta. Read the release announcement.

Protege 4 status

Build status & release notes

Protege 4.0 was released on June 16th, 2009. The full and detailed release announcement is available on this wiki.

To help you decide whether to update, we maintain a complete list of release notes for prior versions of Protege 4:

• Release notes for P4 RC1
• Release notes for P4 beta builds
• Release notes for P4 alpha builds

Bugs & feature requests

Before you report a feature request or potential bug, check the lists below to ensure it hasn't 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. 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 itself, the 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.

Protege-OWL Editor

Protege-OWL FAQ

We have put together a wiki page to answer the most commonly asked questions about the 4.x series of the Protege application:

Getting started / tutorials

• Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor - a short guide to the interface
• Pizzas in 10 minutes: A demo of modeling shortcuts - a quickstart guide to creating your first OWL ontology
• A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools - a substantial guide to OWL and ontology engineering
• Cody Burleson's screencast version of the tutorial listed directly above (it would be great if he got some encouragement for part 6).

Editor features

• Overview of features - a quick summary of the editor
• P4 views guide - a list of all of the default views that are distributed with P4
• P4 menu guide - all of the default menus explained in detail (with keyboard shortcuts)
• P4 preferences guide - customising P4 to your needs
• Naming and rendering of entities - a note on naming things in OWL and configuring P4 to support your naming conventions
• P4 expression editor - adding and editing OWL expressions in P4
• Manchester OWL Syntax - an overview of the default syntax used by P4
• DL Query tab - how to query using arbitrary class expressions in OWL
• Anonymous classes - support in P4 for class expressions
• OWL Imports - modular ontology support in OWL and P4
• Axiom annotations - how to annotate at axiom level in Protege 4

Further setup / configuration

• Adding more memory
• Double-clicking on OWL files

Plugins

Finding plug-ins

• From build 104 P4 will find plugins and updates for you. See our Auto Update page.

• 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 plug-ins

If you have developed a plug-in for Protege-OWL 4.x and you would like to contribute it to the community, please see contributing plugins.

Contributing

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