Best practice is to maintain schema and instances as separate graphs and owl:import schema into the instances graph.
Hope this helps, Irene > On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:18 PM, Rich Keller <richard.kel...@nasa.gov> wrote: > > Hi. I was wondering if you could recommend any best practices for separating > ontology classes from instances in TBC. I currently have a set of 3 or 4 > ontologies that comprise a project I’m developing. I have code that generates > (large numbers of) instances of the classes in these ontologies. > > Originally, my practice was to actually output the base ontology plus > instances into a separate file with a different base namespace so that I > could open up the ontology+instances in TBC. But it gets messy and confusing > to maintain two separate namespaces. > > Now I am generating the instances just as a set of triples without any base > ontology in a separate file. Then I use TBC ‘import triples’ to import these > triples on top of the base model. But if I want to make any changes to the > base ontology, I will have to save the triples plus the base model, and I > don’t want to do that. > > Maybe what I want is some sort of include capability. > > I think this must be a common issue, so I’m probably missing something basic > here. > > Any suggestions? > Thanks, Rich > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise > Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, > SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > topbraid-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TopBraid Suite Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
