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Self-Descriptiveness of Ontologies
Fariz Darari
A Good Ontology Must Be Self-Descriptive!
When someone uses a term from the ontology, she must be able to find out the real meaning of the term by following/dereferencing its URI.
Example:
<http://example.org/thisDocument>
<http://purl.org/dc/terms/license>
<http://example.org/cc-by>
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The example showed that this document’s license is CC-BY.
The example uses the term license from the Dublin Core ontology, meaning:
“A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.”
Oh yeah?
For sure, because when I dereferenced the URI: http://purl.org/dc/terms/license
I got exactly this description:
PS: Yes, DC ontology is a good one :)
What about the other ontologies?
• FOAF
• OWL
• dbpprop (DBpedia)
• geo
• BIBO (Books)
• VoID (Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets)
FOAF
Example term: http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/knows
Dereference result:
OWL
Example term: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#equivalentClass
Dereference result:
dbpprop
Example term: http://dbpedia.org/property/country
Dereference result:
geo
Example term: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#latitude
Dereference result:
BIBO
Example term:
http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/chapter
Dereference result:
