Build an ontology without leaving Protégé¶

OntoBoard runs the ODK and ROBOT pipeline inside Protégé Desktop - building, reasoning, testing, releasing - and draws your whole ontology on a board you can work on like a whiteboard. No terminal, no Docker, no switching windows.

Download the plugin Try an example Start here: the guide

One jar. Protégé 5.6.x or 5.5.0. Nothing else to install.

162design patterns, ready to import

1jar - no terminal, no Docker

2example ontologies to open and explore

Try it in fifteen minutes¶

A pizza ontology¶

Made from three design patterns and released five times. Open it, see it on the board, add a pizza and let the reasoner sort it. Try it

BFO and a knowledge graph¶

A pizza ontology on BFO 2020, and nine spreadsheets that become a knowledge graph of which pizza was baked by whom, where and when. Try it

What it does¶

Your ontology on a board¶

Every class, property and individual as soon as the tab opens. Select a term and its relations come forward; press Tab for a new subclass. What the board draws

ODK without the terminal¶

Create a project, build and test it, release a version, compare two releases - all from the OntoBoard menu. Working with ODK

Patterns you can import¶

162 ontology design patterns, ranked against the ontology you have open, with the reason shown. Browse them

Spreadsheets become a graph¶

One sheet per kind of thing: identifiers generated, names checked across sheets, rows turned into individuals. How

Questions become tests¶

Pick a rule and the terms - every pizza has a base - and OntoBoard writes the test and runs it. No SPARQL. How

Edit together¶

A live session with shared edits if your group runs the server; plain git if it does not. Collaboration

See a pattern, live¶

The Componency pattern, as it ships in the plugin. Drag a node, scroll to zoom.

Made with OntoBoard¶

Ontologies built with OntoBoard, each one a repository you can clone and open: every step a menu action, every release a git tag. See them all, and add yours.