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Definition#

An ontology is created in a similar way as a d3web knowledge base using the ontology markup. 

%%Ontology 
  @uses: myPackageName
%
For the name myPackageName please use the name of the package that you used for the ontology definitions.

Creating Ontology Entities within the Local Namespace#

Ontologies in KnowWE are based on the RDF standard (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/). In RDF every resource is identified by a full qualified URI name. For brevity, KnowWE uses shortened identifier such as rdf for http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#. The resource http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type therefore is called rdf:type in KnowWE. Ontology entities newly created within the wiki are created in the ontology repository under the so-called local namespace, that is the URL referring to the wiki installation URL. On the wiki pages, the local namespace (lns) is ommitted.

Example#

%%Ontology
@uses: myPackageName
%

%%Package myPackageName

%%Turtle 
:System rdf:type owl:Class .

:KnowWE rdf:type :System ; 
    rdfs:label "KnowWE" .
%
myPackageName
myPackageName
lns.System
:System
rdf.type
rdf:type
owl.Class
owl:Class
.
lns.KnowWE
:KnowWE
rdf.type
rdf:type
lns.System
:System
;
rdfs.label
rdfs:label
"KnowWE"
.
For the third markup line (relation markup), three ontology entities are used. The first (Ms. Moneypenny) and third (Person) are from the local namespace and therefor the namespace prefix is omitted. The second part is from the predefined rdf vocabulary, therefor the rdf-namespace is used as a prefix by a colon.

See Also #

The following markups can be used to create ontology entities (under local namespace if the namespace prefix is omitted):

Beside the local namespace, also other namespaces may freely be defined using the Namespace markup. For sparql queries in the SPARQL markup, always a namespace needs to be defined (including lns: for the local namespace) for triple patterns of a query.