Semantic Data

Chapter 6 : The Web Ontology Language OWL

Jean-Louis Binot

1 11/03/2020Semantic Data

Sources and recommended readings

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Agenda

Species of OWL2

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OWL in the W3C standards stack

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Why not just build OWL as an extension of RDFS ?

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Species of OWL

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Mapping with description logics

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OLW Syntaxes

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Examples of the first 5 syntaxes

can be found in the OLW2 Primer

We will only cover Turtle

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Namespaces and prefixes

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Example ontology : the Wine ontology

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Expressing DL in OWL, an example

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Thing and Nothing

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Types of class restrictions

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1. Constraints on the properties of the instances

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Constraints on the properties of the instances ./.

Constraint OWL DL

Property value type restrictions

Existential restriction [owl:onProperty r ;

owl:someValuesFrom C]

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Universal restriction [owl:onProperty r ;

owl:allValuesFrom C]

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Cardinality restrictions

Minimum cardinality [owl:onProperty r ;

owl:minCardinality n]

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Maximum cardinality [owl:onProperty r ;

owl:maxCardinality n]

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Property value restriction [owl:onProperty r ;

owl:hasValue v]

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2. Enumerated classes

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3. Class definitions using set relationships

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3. Class definitions using set relationships ./.

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A larger example

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Graph-based visualisation

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Properties

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OWL property characteristics

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Property axioms

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Revisiting the example from chapter 1

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(example after Paulheim,

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Updated framework of reference for semantic applications

Data integration component

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Ontology management

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Ontology mapping

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OLW 2 relationship to OWL 1

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OWL 2 Profiles

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Compatibility of reasoners

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OLW Semantics

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Mapping between OWL and description logics

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Summary

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References

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THANK YOU

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