The Collections Ontology: Creating and handling collections in OWL 2 DL frameworks

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Ciccarese, Paolo^{; ;} | Peroni, Silvio

Affiliations: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Mindinformatics, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, 02139 MA, USA | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA | Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna (BO), Italy

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: The RDF collections and containers is one of the most used features by RDF technicians and practitioners. Although some work has been published in past, there is not a standard and accepted way for defining collections within OWL DL frameworks. Here, we attempt to address this issue with the introduction of the Collections Ontology (CO) version 2.0. CO is an OWL 2 DL ontology developed for creating sets, bags and lists of resources, and for inferring collection properties even in the presence of incomplete information.

Keywords: OWL, collection, list, bag, set

DOI: 10.3233/SW-130121

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 515-529, 2014