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The Thing Model (TM) ontology is an RDF axiomatization of the TM concepts, one of the building blocks of the Web of Things (WoT). Besides providing an alternative to the standard JSON representation format for TM documents, the TM ontology can also be used to process contextual information on Things and for alignments with other WoT-related ontologies.
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The TM ontology is an idiomatic RDF axiomatization of the TM concepts , which can be used as a template for instantiating Thing Descriptions (TD)s. The TM ontology imports the TD ontology.
Please note that the Turtle version of the ontology can be always obtained by doing content negotiation as explained in
Appendix D of the Thing Description Recommendation. You can
include Accept: text/turtle in the request to
obtain the Turtle version of this ontology.
As well as sections marked as non-normative, all authoring guidelines, diagrams, examples, and notes in this specification are non-normative. Everything else in this specification is normative.
The key word MUST in this document is to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.
The fundamental WoT terminology such as Thing, Consumer, Thing Description (TD), Interaction Model, Interaction Affordance, Property, Action, Event, Protocol Binding, Servient, etc. is defined in Section 3 of the WoT Architecture specification [WOT-ARCHITECTURE].
The Thing Description terminology such as TD Information Model, TD Document, Term (Vocabulary Term), etc. is defined in Section 3 of the WoT Thing Description specification [WOT-THING-DESCRIPTION].
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#ThingModel
| In the domain of | td:descriptiontd:hasLinktd:titletm:hasVersiontm:optionaltm:required |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#Version
| In the domain of | tm:model |
| In the range of | tm:hasVersion |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#hasVersion
| Domain includes | tm:ThingModel |
| Range includes | tm:Version |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#model
| Domain includes | tm:Version |
| Range includes | schema:Text |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#optional
| Domain includes | tm:ThingModel |
| Range includes | schema:Text |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#ref
| Domain includes |
td:InteractionAffordance |
| Range includes | schema:Text |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#required
| Domain includes | tm:ThingModel |
| Range includes | schema:Text |
IRI:
https://www.w3.org/2019/wot/tm#versionInfo