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 2010: Protege 4.1 beta release  (more)
04 Mar 2010: Protege 4.1 alpha release  (more)
03 Dec 2009: Protege 4.0.2 patch release  (more)

Protege 4 status

Build status & release notes

The latest Protege 4 build is the 4.1 beta release (build 220) from March 11, 2011.

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

• Protege 4.1 alpha builds
• Protege 4.0.2 patch release, December 3, 2009
• Protege 4.0.1 patch release, October 28, 2009
• Protege 4.0 release, June 16th, 2009
• Protege 4.0 RC1, June 1st, 2009
• Protege 4.0 beta builds
• Protege 4.0 beta announcement
• Protege 4.0 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

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
• Protege 4 User's Guide - a guide on how to use Protege to create, edit, and inspect ontologies
• 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 P4.1
• Axiom annotations - how to annotate at axiom level in Protege 4

Further setup / configuration

• Adding more memory
• Double-clicking on OWL files
• Dealing with P4 preferences problems
• Getting updates from behind a firewall

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.