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The webprotege code base

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

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

Building

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

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

Running from Docker

To run WebProtégé using the Docker container

1. Create a new file called "docker-compose.yml" and copy-and-paste the following text:

   version: '3'
   
   services:
     wpmongo:
       image: mongo:4.1-bionic
     webprotege:
       image: protegeproject/webprotege
       restart: always
       environment:
         - webprotege.mongodb.host=wpmongo
       ports:
         - 5000:8080
       depends_on:
         - wpmongo

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

   $ docker-compose up

3. Browse to WebProtégé in a Web browser by navigating to http://localhost:5000