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Instances for an OWL DL Ontology

This RDF document is based on the OWL DL ontology (AltovaDocuments.rdf) you created in the previous part of this tutorial. The objective is to create instances of this OWL DL ontology in a separate RDF file. In order to be able to create such instances using ontology properties as predicates and ontology instances as objects, ontology resources must be availabe to the user via the GUI.

This part of the tutorial describes (i) how to set up the RDF document in SemanticWorks so that ontology resources are available via the GUI; and (ii) how to actually make RDF statements using these resources. This part of the tutorial is organized into three sections:

Note: You will need to know the location of the file AltovaDocuments.rdf, which you created in the previous section, OWL DL Ontology. If you did not do that part of the tutorial, you will find the file AltovaDocuments.rdf in the application folder: C:/Documents and Settings/<username>/My Documents/Altova/SemanticWorks2008/SemanticWorksExamples/Tutorial.