Aziza; Generally owl:imports is a kind of include. When "ontologyA owl:imports ontologyB", then the triples from ontologyB are available to ontologyA. Importing has no implication for where the triples are - i.e. if triple <s> <p> <o> is defined in ontologyB, then that will always be the case, unless some action is takes to move the triple elsewhere.
<1) whenever I open my ontology , TBC would load the imported ontology;> TBC will always try to load the imported ontology. If that fails, a waring will occur, but it will not prevent the importing ontology from being opened. <2) according to the 1st clause whenever changes made in imported ontology"(Finance), they would be reflected in federated one(IslamicFinace) ?> So the structure here is <IslamicFinance> owl:imports <Finance>. If you modify a resource in Finance, the Finance ontology will be changed. If you add a new triple, it will be added to IslamicFinance, as this is the open ontology. You can experiment with this by opening IslamicFinance in Composer and making changes to triples in each ontology (note that the icons for imported values has a yellow icon indicator). Note which file gets changed (the star that appears in the tab). There is more on owl:imports in Help > Import and Export > Work with imported ontologies. -- Scott On May 11, 1:54 am, aziza <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > I have some question to ask: > Let's say I created my own ontoogy using TBC and imported another one > using Import feature. > Now they became federated. > My question is: > Do imported classes, properties of imported ontology still belong to > the imported ontology or they belong to federated ontology? > For example, My ontology is IslamicFinance. > Imported ontology is Finance. > After importing Finance ontology would the Finance's classes still be > belong to Finance or already to IslamicFinance? > If the classes of imported ontology after federation still be belong > to imported ontology, would it mean that : > 1) whenever I open my ontology , TBC would load the imported ontology; > 2) according to the 1st clause whenever changes made in imported > ontology"(Finance), > they would be reflected in federated one(IslamicFinace) ? > > Thanks, Aziza. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
