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various links: Display, Project, Share,…  Click on Project. This will give you a dropdown menu. Select 
Settings from that menu. Scroll down to New Entity Settings. Change IRI Suffix from Auto-generated 
Universally Unique ID (UUID) to Supplied name. Leave the rest of the settings as they are and select the 
Apply button at the bottom right corner of the screen.  
When you select Apply, you should return to the main Web Protégé view with the Class hierarchy tab 
selected. If it doesn’t select that tab. Select the Pizza class. Your UI should look like figure 12.3.  
 
 
Figure 12.3 Browsing the Pizza Ontology in Web Protégé  
Note that the axioms for the Pizza class are there but they are not editable. Protégé uses the reasoner even 
when entering or editing axioms to ensure that any axioms have the proper syntax so since there is no 
reasoner in Web Protégé it is not possible to edit axioms (since one might introduce syntactically 
incorrect axioms) only delete them using the X at the right of each axiom. 
Also note the panels on the right: Comments and Project Feed. These are new capabilities in Web Protégé 
to facilitate collaborative design of ontologies. We will demonstrate that shortly. First, you can navigate 
the class hierarchy by clicking on the triangles at the left of each class that has at least one subclass. This 
will expand the class and show its subclasses. Click on Pizza to see its subclasses. For our scenario 
imagine we are opening a new branch of our pizza store in Chicago and we are dealing with a domain 
expert in Chicago pizza. As they examine the hierarchy, they are appalled to see that there is no class for 
ChicagoPizza, a type of deep dish Pizza that first became popular in Chicago.  Click on NamedPizza. 
Then click on the icon at the left corner of the Comments view. If you hover the mouse over this icon you