wiki:adapters_owl

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Ontology Adapter: OWL

Developer: 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

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