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
The latest Protege 4 build is the 4.0.1 patch release from October 28, 2009.
To help you decide whether to update, we maintain a complete list of release notes for prior versions of Protege 4:
- Protege 4.0 release, June 16th, 2009
- Protege 4.0 RC1, June 1st, 2009
- Protege 4.0 beta builds
- 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
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
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.
