Function
Represent domain structure
Express entities, concepts, and their relationships in a form a system can interpret.
Studio / Area
Context & Knowledge
Make the information and concepts a system relies on explicit.
What does the system need to know, and how is that knowledge made explicit?
In scope
- Vocabularies, schemas, rules, entity identity, metadata, and provenance representations
Boundary
- Data ingestion and cleaning; operational oversight and approval
Start with the outcome
Functions
Function
Controlled vocabulary modeling
Organize concepts with preferred labels and explicit semantic relationships.
Function
Decision modeling
Describe decision requirements and logic using explicit diagrams or tables.
Function
Provenance modeling
Represent how entities, activities, and agents relate to the origin of information.
Function
Run-event data lineage
Record which jobs and datasets participated in a data-processing run.
Function
Decision Model and Notation 1.6
OMG specification for describing business decisions and decision logic.
Function
OpenLineage
Open specification for metadata about data-processing jobs, runs and datasets.
Function
PROV-O
W3C ontology for expressing provenance information.
Function
SKOS
Vocabulary for sharing concept schemes, labels, and semantic relationships.
Function
Define a shared vocabulary
Give recurring concepts stable names and relationships so people and systems interpret them consistently.
Function
Record where information came from
Capture the origin and transformation history of information used by a system.
Function
Represent decision rules
Express decision criteria and their inputs in a form people can inspect and maintain.
Function
Align vocabularies
Identify corresponding concepts across separate vocabularies or ontologies.
Function
Ontology matching
Compare entities from separate ontologies to propose semantic correspondences.
Function
AgreementMakerLight
Ontology matching tool that proposes alignments between separate ontologies.
Function
Author an ontology
Define and revise formal domain concepts, relations, and constraints.
Function
OWL ontology authoring
Edit an OWL ontology through a structured visual development environment.
Function
Protégé Desktop
Standalone editor for developing and reviewing OWL 2 ontologies.
Function
WebProtégé
Browser-based collaborative editor for OWL 2 ontologies.
Function
Infer graph facts
Derive graph statements entailed by explicit facts and ontology axioms.
Function
Ontology entailment
Apply defined RDF/OWL semantics to derive implied statements from graph facts.
Function
GraphDB Enterprise (self-managed)
Self-managed licensed RDF graph database with configurable rule-based inferencing.
Representative paths
Methods and options
approach
Provenance modeling
Represent how entities, activities, and agents relate to the origin of information.
standard
PROV-O
W3C ontology for expressing provenance information.
model-release
Recharging Robots (IPC 2023 PDDL domain)
A pinned engineered PDDL domain describing robots, battery use, guarding, and action transitions for IPC 2023 planning tasks.
approach
Controlled vocabulary modeling
Organize concepts with preferred labels and explicit semantic relationships.
standard
SKOS
Vocabulary for sharing concept schemes, labels, and semantic relationships.
approach
Decision modeling
Describe decision requirements and logic using explicit diagrams or tables.
standard
Decision Model and Notation 1.6
OMG specification for describing business decisions and decision logic.
approach
Run-event data lineage
Record which jobs and datasets participated in a data-processing run.
standard
OpenLineage
Open specification for metadata about data-processing jobs, runs and datasets.
approach
Ontology matching
Compare entities from separate ontologies to propose semantic correspondences.
implementation
AgreementMakerLight
Ontology matching tool that proposes alignments between separate ontologies.
approach
OWL ontology authoring
Edit an OWL ontology through a structured visual development environment.
implementation
Protégé Desktop
Standalone editor for developing and reviewing OWL 2 ontologies.
implementation
WebProtégé
Browser-based collaborative editor for OWL 2 ontologies.
approach
Ontology entailment
Apply defined RDF/OWL semantics to derive implied statements from graph facts.
implementation
GraphDB Enterprise (self-managed)
Self-managed licensed RDF graph database with configurable rule-based inferencing.
Across the Studio
Governance connection
Provenance can be represented here while its retention and use for assurance are governed elsewhere.
Related records
- In this areaRepresent domain structure
- In this areaControlled vocabulary modeling
- In this areaDecision modeling
- In this areaProvenance modeling
- In this areaRun-event data lineage
- In this areaDecision Model and Notation 1.6
- In this areaOpenLineage
- In this areaPROV-O
- In this areaSKOS
- In this areaDefine a shared vocabulary
- In this areaRecord where information came from
- In this areaRepresent decision rules
- In this areaAlign vocabularies
- In this areaOntology matching
- In this areaAgreementMakerLight
- In this areaAuthor an ontology
- In this areaOWL ontology authoring
- In this areaProtégé Desktop
- In this areaWebProtégé
- In this areaInfer graph facts
- In this areaOntology entailment
- In this areaGraphDB Enterprise (self-managed)
Sources
Last reviewed 2026-09-29