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Protégé (software)

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Protégé
Developer(s)Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research
Initial release11 November 1999; 24 years ago (1999-11-11)[1]
Stable release
5.5.0 / 15 March 2019; 5 years ago (2019-03-15)[1]
Repositorygithub.com/protegeproject/protege
Written inJava
Operating systemLinux, Mac OS X & Windows[2]
PlatformJava VM[3]
TypeOntology editor
LicenseBSD 2-clause
Websiteprotege.stanford.edu

Protégé is a free, open source ontology editor and a knowledge management system. The Protégé meta-tool was first built by Mark Musen in 1987 and has since been developed by a team at Stanford University.[4] The software is the most popular and widely used ontology editor in the world.[5][6][as of?]

Overview

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Protégé provides a graphical user interface to define ontologies. It also includes deductive classifiers to validate that models are consistent and to infer new information based on the analysis of an ontology. Like Eclipse, Protégé is a framework for which various other projects suggest plugins. This application is written in Java and makes heavy use of Swing to create the user interface. According to their website, there are over 300,000 registered users.[7] A 2009 book calls it "the leading ontological engineering tool".[8]

Protégé is developed at Stanford University and is made available under the BSD 2-clause license.[9] Earlier versions of the tool were developed in collaboration with the University of Manchester.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Protege Desktop Older Versions". Protege Wiki. 24 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Protege Desktop 5.0 Installation Instructions". Protege Wiki.
  3. ^ "Protege Desktop Frequently Asked Questions". Protege Wiki.
  4. ^ Gennari, John H.; Musen, Mark A.; Fergerson, Ray W.; Grosso, William E.; Crubézy, Monica; Eriksson, Henrik; Noy, Natalya F.; Tu, Samson W. (2003-01-01). "The evolution of Protégé: an environment for knowledge-based systems development". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 58 (1): 89–123. doi:10.1016/S1071-5819(02)00127-1. ISSN 1071-5819.
  5. ^ "Protégé Short Course". protege.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  6. ^ Musen, Mark A. (2015-06-16). "The protégé project". AI Matters. 1 (4): 4–12. doi:10.1145/2757001.2757003. ISSN 2372-3483. PMC 4883684. PMID 27239556.
  7. ^ "Protégé Community". protege.stanford.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  8. ^ Dragan Gašević; Dragan Djurić; Vladan Devedžić (2009). Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development (2nd ed.). Springer. p. 194. ISBN 978-3-642-00282-3.
  9. ^ "protege/license.txt". GitHub. 2 April 2020.
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