# Protege Desktop

[Protege](https://protege.stanford.edu) is a free, open-source ontology editor that supports the latest [OWL 2.0 standard](http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/). Protege has a pluggable architecture, and many [plugins](https://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/Protege_Plugin_Library) for different functionalities are available.

To read more about **Protege's features**, please visit the Protege [home page](https://protege.stanford.edu).

The latest version of Protege can be [downloaded](https://protege.stanford.edu/software.php#desktop-protege) from the Protege website, or from [github](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege-distribution/releases).

If you would like to contribute to the Protege Project please see our [contributing guide](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)

The [Developer Documentation](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege/wiki/Developer-Documentation) may be found on the wiki.

**Looking for support?** Please ask questions on the [protege-user](https://protege.stanford.edu/support.php) or [protege-dev](https://protege.stanford.edu/support.php) mailing lists. If you found a bug or would like to request a feature, you may also use [this issue tracker](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege/issues).

Protege is released under the [BSD 2-clause license](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/protegeproject/protege/master/license.txt).

Instructions for [building from source](https://github.com/protegeproject/protege/wiki/Building-from-Source) are available on the the wiki.
