Glossary of "OWL Web Ontology Language Guide"

Term entries in the "OWL Web Ontology Language Guide" glossary

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attribute

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

as in XML
class

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

as in RDF
class definition

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

informal term for an owl:Class element
class description

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

describes an OWL class, either by a class name or by specifying a class extension of an unnamed anonymous class
class name

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

informal term for an owl:Class rdf:ID attribute value.
component

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

for parts of a definition e.g. the arguments to intersection-of in a class definition
concept

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

informal term for the abstractions "in the world" that ontologies describe
constraint

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

informal term for discussing the effect of a restriction
data-valued property

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

alternative term for DataType Property
datatype

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

an RDFS datatype, almost always one of the built-in non-list XML Schema datatypes
datatype property

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

an OWL property that relates individuals to data values
element

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

(1) as in XML
(2) an element of a set
entity

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

as in XML
imports closure

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

the information in an ontology document, plus the information in the imports closure of ontology documents that are imported by the document
individual

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

an instance of an OWL class, i.e., a resource that belongs to the class extension of an OWL class
individual-valued property

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

alternative term for Object Property
instance

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

a member of the class extension of an OWL class
instance of

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

the relation between an individual and a class
name

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

as in XML Namespaces
named class

From OWL Web Ontology Language Guide (2004-02-10)

an OWL class with an associated identifier

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