Overview

The IRI structure of the IOF references the OWL documents providing a versioned and not-versioned form. The latter form will always refer to the latest released version of the documents. For the IRI syntax, please refer to RFC 3987 from The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

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• https://www.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/

• https://www.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/domainindependent/Stasis/

  • The Stasis ontology of the domainindependent sub-topic of the core topic

• https://www.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/domainindependent/Stasis/Stasis

  • Class Stasis in the Stasis ontology of the domain independent domainindependent sub-topic of the core topic.

• https://www.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/domainindependent/Stasis/triggers

  • Object property triggers in the Stasis ontology of the domain independent sub-topic of the core topic.

• https://www.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChainReferenceOntology/SupplyChainShippingProcess

  • Class SupplyChainShippingProcess of the SupplyChainReferenceOntology ontology of the supply chain supplychain topic.

The ontology name MUST be in Upper Camel Case, each word capitalized with no separation between words. All acronyms MUST be spelled out except when in the dictionary, like RADAR.

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• .../ontology/foundation/20210611/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/usageNote

• .../ontology/foundation/20210611/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/adaptedFrom

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Old notes for reference…

IRI Structural Rules in the following order

• Authority: www.industrialontologies.org

• Top: /ontology

• Topic areas are lowercase with no punctuation or separation:

  • /supplychain

  • /foundation

• Versioned IRI:

  • Release date after highest level topic area

  • Date format: YYYYMMDD

  • /supplychain/20210601

  • /foundation/20210601/meta

• File-name Upper Camel Case with no punctuation: AnnotationVocabulary

  • Uppercase first letter of each word, no separation

  • All acronyms are spelled out

    • Exceptions like RADAR, words appearing in the dictionary

• Class and properties separated from path with a /

  • /ontology/foundation/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/usageNote

• Class name Upper Camel Case:

  • Uppercase first letter of each word, no separation

  • All acronyms are spelled out

    • Exceptions like RADAR, words appearing in the dictionary

• Object property Lower Camel Case:

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • All property names MUST be verb or verb phrase

  • hasParticipant

• Data properties and annotation names Lower Camel Case

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • Verb phrase starting with has

  • hasTag

  • hasDateValue

• Annotation properties

  • Lowercase first letter, uppercase each following word

  • usageNote

  • adaptedFrom

• Versioned and unversioned forms MUST be provided.

Examples

• Unversioned: /ontology/foundation/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/usageNote

• Versioned: /ontology/foundation/20210601/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/usageNote

• /ontology/supplychain/

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