WebProtégé

What is WebProtégé?

WebProtégé is a free, open source collaborative ontology development environment.

It provides the following features:

• Support for editing OWL 2 ontologies
• A default simple editing interface, which provides access to commonly used OWL constructs
• Full change tracking and revision history
• Collaboration tools such as, sharing and permissions, threaded notes and discussions, watches and email notifications
• Customizable user interface
• Support for editing OBO ontologies
• Multiple file formats for upload and download of ontologies (supported formats: RDF/XML, Turtle, OWL/XML, OBO, and others)

WebProtégé runs as a Web application. End users access it through their Web browsers. They do not need to download or install any software. We encourage end-users to use

https://webprotege.stanford.edu

This repository houses the code for the WebProtege GWT User Interface.

Building

To build WebProtégé from source

1. Clone the github repository

   git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/webprotege-gwt-ui.git
   

2. Open a terminal in the directory where you clone the repository to
3. Use maven to package WebProtégé

   mvn clean package
   

4. The WebProtege .war file will be built into the webprotege-server directory

Running from Maven

To run WebProtégé in SuperDev Mode using maven

1. Start the GWT code server in one terminal window

   mvn gwt:codeserver
   

2. In a different terminal window start the tomcat server

   mvn -Denv=dev tomcat7:run
   

3. Start the WebProtégé Backend

4. Browse to WebProtégé in a Web browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080