New > Import SHACL Ontology from RDFS/OWL File

This feature is available from the global New Button and can be used to create Ontology asset collections from an RDF Schema or OWL file. You will be asked to upload an RDF file (Turtle, RDF/XML or JSON-LD) and to enter the display name of the ontology that will be created; the file is then converted to SHACL. For example, owl:minCardinality restrictions are mapped to sh:minCount constraints.

The importer does not include an OWL DL inference engine, so it will only use the asserted triples from the file. If you want to include the inferred triples, assert and save those into the file beforehand. The result is a SHACL-first ontology, with the option to also keep the OWL/RDFS axioms in addition to the SHACL constraints. If you instead wish to produce a pure RDFS/OWL ontology, create an empty Ontology and then do an RDF File Import. If the file contains thousands of classes but no instances, you may instead want to use New > Import Classonomy from File.

Use this feature as a quick start if you are coming from tools such as Protege.

See Also

• New > Import Classonomy from File

Further Reading on Ontologies

• Working with Ontologies

Further Reading on New Button

• Asset Collection Constructors

Further Reading on TQ Data Foundation

• Introduction to TQ Data Foundation