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Where/how to define a common object property used in different ontologies

I'm developing an ontology but I have different parts in different files with different URIs, all starting with http://www.semanticweb.org/lsarni/ontologies/.

I have defined partOf the way it's described here and right now it looks like this:

<owl:ObjectProperty rdf:about="http://www.semanticweb.org/lsarni/ontologies/curricula#partOf">
  <rdfs:subPropertyOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#topObjectProperty"/>
  <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#TransitiveProperty"/>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="es">Indica la composición entre individuos</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:comment xml:lang="en">Represents part-whole relations</rdfs:comment>
  <rdfs:label xml:lang="es">parteDe</rdfs:label>
</owl:ObjectProperty>

But I have noticed I want to use it different parts, where it doesn't make sense to import curricula since all I need is partOf.

Is there a standard way of dealing with this or should I just create a new file and move this object property there and import it when need it?

Solution

  • The best way to achieve this is to have an ontology with these properties and classes and import it where required - OWL does not support importing just part of an ontology, at the moment.