The baseURI is only required it there are partial URIs.
If every URI in a document is either a either fully qualified URI, or a
namespace-abbreviated URI, including the Ontology declaration, then any
definition of or assumptions about the baseURI is superfluous. Everything
is explicit. That should be enough for any application. So I guess I don't
understand the question

"how could TopBraid possibly make sense of it"

My other point is that if TB is relying on extra information being smuggled
in comments, then we are well out on a limb here.


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Holger Knublauch <[email protected]>wrote:

> I really don't think there is a problem in TBC. If the physical file
> (imported from somewhere else) does not contain baseURI information then
> how could TopBraid possibly make sense of it. That's why we add the #
> baseURI comment: it makes managing the files in the workspace much more
> efficient than having to pre-load them all.
>
> I remain of the position that the ontology authors should follow the
> convention used almost everywhere else - that the owl:Ontology does not end
> with a #.
>
> Holger
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Simon Cox wrote:
>
> Thanks Holger -
>
> OK - I saved the imported ontology like you said.
> Inspecting the contents, I find the only difference from what I got by
> downloading the TTL file directly from W3C was the insertion of
>
> # baseURI: http://www.w3.org/ns/locn
>
> This is a comment! http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/#sec-grammar-comments
> But I guess it is important to TopBraid.
> I've previously noticed similar comments used to indicate imports as well.
> Hmmm. Now we are getting into (black) magic?
>
> Furthermore, when I put a copy of this saved file in a place where I could
> open it, then TopBraid automatically created a second Ontology resource
> whose URI is the baseURI, in addition to the explicit one already in the
> file.
> So clearly TopBraid insists on having an Ontology present whose URI is the
> baseURI declared in the file (graph).
> If you make any changes to the file and then save it, you end up with two
> ontologies in the file, which in turn confuses some other tools.
>
> One of my colleagues has pointed out that this may be coming from OWLAPI
>
> "the automatic ontology IRI mapping tools in OWLAPI assume that the base
> URI is the ontology IRI.  As far as I know this should be just a
> convention."
>
> Is this the source of the problem in TB?
>
>
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