Ontology and Vocabulary Design

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Classes and Properties Description

  • Name with rdfs:label
  • Description with rdfs:comment
  • Define attachment to an ontology with rdfs:isDefinedBy (value type = xsd:anyURI)
  • (optionally) define alternative labels with iron:altLabel
  • (optionally) define deprecated classes or properties with owl:deprecated with value ("true"^^xsd:boolean)
  • (optionally) define the language tag for each literal values of any assertionProperty: such as rdfs:comment, rdfs:label and iron:altLabel.


  • Each properties used to define other properties or classes have to be defined, within the ontology as owl:AnnotationProperty.
  • If a single class or property is needed from an external ontology, re-define it in the current ontology (with the property URI) instead of importing the whole ontology.


  • Using Protégé 4.1-Beta and upward (June 16 2010)
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