Protege4Features

Protege Desktop Features

This page contains a short overview of the main features in Protege Desktop, versions 4.x and higher.

See Also: Protege Desktop User Documentation

GUI Framework

• Configurable (persistent) layout of components
• Creation, import, and export of user configured tabs
• Multiple alternative views of the same ontology
• Tear-off and cloning of components
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Drag and drop support
• Lazy loading components/plug-ins for improved speed and memory usage

API

• OWL API for OWL 2.0 provides efficient in-memory model
• Plug-in framework is OSGi compliant Equinox (easily extensible)
• Generic application framework is separated from OWL Editor Kit

Modularization

• Intelligent use of local/global repositories to handle import dependencies
• Loading of multiple ontologies into a single workspace
• Switching between ontologies dynamically
• UI hints for showing in which ontology statements are made
• Refactoring: merging ontologies and removal of redundant imports
• Refactoring: moving axioms between ontologies

Navigation

• History
• Global/local find
• Global usage
• Hyperlinking in editors

Refactoring Tools

• Renaming (including multiple entities)
• Handling disjoints/different
• Quick defined class creation
• Various transforms on restrictions (including covering)
• Conversion of IDs to labels
• Moving axioms between ontologies

Reasoning Support

• Inferred axioms show up in most standard views
• DL Query tab for testing arbitrary class expressions
• Direct interface to FaCT++ reasoner
• Direct interface to Pellet reasoner
• Reasoners are plug-ins

OWL Editing

• Consistent rendering of ontology entities, using URI fragments or annotation values
• OWL description parsing (also supports names in annotations)
• Built-in change support allowing compound changes and undo
• Autocompletion and expression history
• Syntax highlighting
• Auto creation of IDs/labels for new entities
• SWRL rules editing

Plug-ins

• Highly pluggable architecture with support for lots of different types of plugin including views, menu actions, reasoners, preferences, several manager hooks and more
• Auto-update for notification of new plugins and new versions
• Many plugins available including reasoners, matrices, scripting, clouds, existential tree, text mining, explanation, ontology processing, lint test framework, natural language generation and more