Please note that this is soon to be the legacy codebase for WebProtégé. This repository will be replaced with the webprotege-backend and webprotege-gwt-ui repositories, which cleanly separate out user-interface code from WebProtégé service code.

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

If you have downloaded the webprotege war file from GitHub, and would like to deploy it on your own server, please follow the instructions at:

https://github.com/protegeproject/webprotege/wiki/WebProtégé-4.0.0-beta-x-Installation

To build WebProtégé from source

1. Clone the github repository

   git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/webprotege.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

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

To run WebProtégé using Docker containers:

1. Enter this following command in the Terminal to start the docker container in the background

   docker-compose up -d

2. Create the admin user (follow the questions prompted to provider username, email and password)

   docker exec -it webprotege java -jar /webprotege-cli.jar create-admin-account

3. Browse to WebProtégé Settings page in a Web browser by navigating to http://localhost:5000/#application/settings

   1. Define the System notification email address and application host URL
   2. Enable User creation, Project creation and Project import

To stop WebProtégé and MongoDB:

docker-compose down

Sharing the volumes used by the WebProtégé app and MongoDB allow to keep persistent data, even when the containers stop. Default shared data storage:

• WebProtégé will store its data in the source code folder at ./.protegedata/protege where you run docker-compose
• MongoDB will store its data in the source code folder at ./.protegedata/mongodb where you run docker-compose

Path to the shared volumes can be changed in the docker-compose.yml file.