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= Ontology Adapter: OWL =

Developer: [mailto:endres@dfki.uni-kl.de Björn Endres]

== Description ==
This adapter simply provides access to OWL ontologies.

== Characteristics ==
 * Since ''getSubclass()'' relations are not explicitly stored in OWL ontologies, they will be calculated for all classes upon the first call. This is very costy and should be avoided if possible.

== Evaluation/Performance ==
n/a

== Specification ==
=== Intitialisation ===
The ontology adapter class is
 {{{de.dfki.km.phaselib.adapters.owl.OntologyAdapter}}}

It can be initialised in two ways:
 1. by providing the URL of an OWL ontology file.
 2. by giving an {{{org.semanticweb.owl.model.OWLOntology}}} instance.

=== Parameters ===
none

=== Dependencies ===


== License Issues ==