dotNetRDF API Documentation

VDS.RDF.Ontology Namespace

The Ontology Namespace is based upon Jena's Ontology API. It allows for a more ontology-centric way of manipulating RDF graphs within the dotNetRDF API.

The OntologyResource is the base class of resources and allows for the retrieval and manipulation of various common properties of a resource. More specialised classes like OntologyClass and OntologyProperty are used to work with classes and properties etc.

Namespace Hierarchy

Classes

Class Description
Individual Represents an Individual i.e. an instance of some class in an ontology
Ontology Represents the meta-information about an Ontology
OntologyClass Class for representing a class in an Ontology
OntologyGraph Represents a Graph with additional methods for extracting ontology based information from it
OntologyHelper Static Helper class for the Ontology API
OntologyProperty Class for representing a property in an Ontology
OntologyResource Base class for representing a resource in an Ontology
RdfOntologyException Class for representing errors with Ontologies
ReasonerGraph Represents a Graph with a reasoner attached