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Protege 4.x 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 alpha 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
General
Protege 4 "to do" list
Below is a "to-do" list of things that we are working on integrating into Protege 4. Please note that these items are not listed in any particular order of priority. If you have a question about the status of any line item, please post a message on the Protege 4 mailing list.
- Protege-Frames editor (currently we only have the OWL editor)
- Protege Web client
- Protege Services
- Client-server support
- Better SWRL support in the Protege-OWL editor
- Better modularization support
- Support for collaborative ontology development
- Forms and browser slot patterns in the Protege-OWL editor
- A database back-end
User Interface
Protege-OWL
- Getting started with the Protege-OWL editor
- Overview of new features in the Protege-OWL editor
- A Practical Guide to Building OWL Ontologies using Protege 4 and CO-ODE Tools (errata page)
- Menu and keyboard shortcuts
- DL Query tab
- Manchester OWL Syntax
Plug-ins
Protege-OWL
To see a listing of plug-ins specific to the Protege-OWL editor, go to the Wiki article for the 4.x version of the Protege-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.
The CO-ODE group at the University of Manchester is the biggest contributor of plug-ins to the Protege-OWL editor. As such, users may be interested to look at the Protege 4 Plugins page on the CO-ODE Web site, which a listing of only those plug-ins developed at the University of Manchester. This is a good place to go to download the source code for CO-ODE developed plug-ins.
If you have developed a plug-in for Protege-OWL and you would like to contribute it to the community, go to the Protege Plugins Library and click the the "New Plugin" button.
Wish list
To follow is list of considerations for improving Protege 4, its documentation, and/or 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.
- Consider an "Add Tab" feature in the Tabs menu that would allow users to add an empty tab (e.g., "My Tab"), and thus have a place to assemble personal layouts from a clean starting point. Perhaps provide a minimum of one empty "My Tab" in the user interface.
