/webprotege-backend-service

The backend for WebProtege

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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

  1. Start the WebProtégé server on a port that doesn't clash with the front end server
    mvn -Dmaven.tomcat.port=8082 tomcat7:run