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 +====== Ontology Language ======
  
 +[[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:start|Go up to Terms and Definitions]]
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 +===== Discussion =====
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 +An ontology language provides a formal means to express an [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:o:ontology|ontology]]. It supplies constructs for representing concepts, relationships, classifications, assertions, constraints, axioms, annotations, and other ontology content.
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 +An ontology language differs from the ontology itself. The language provides the expression mechanism. The ontology provides the domain commitments expressed through that mechanism.
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 +Ontology languages and representation approaches differ in their assumptions, semantics, constraints, reasoning capabilities, and implementation tradeoffs.
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 +===== Definition =====
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 +//formal language used to express an ontology//
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 +===== Source =====
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 +Generalised from common ontology engineering usage and specialized for use in the FX Demo Reference Architecture.
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 +===== Note =====
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 +An ontology language differs from a graph store, serialisation format, modeling tool, or reasoner. Those technologies support ontology implementation, exchange, storage, or processing.
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 +===== Example =====
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 +[[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:o:owl|OWL]] is an ontology language. An FX transaction ontology expressed in OWL uses OWL constructs and OWL reasoning semantics.
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