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.
| 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 |