Last modified date is: 2010-03-08

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General description

Name:	Collection
Submitted by:	AldoGangemi
Also Known As:	membership, collection entity
Intent:	To represent domain (not set theory) membership.
Domains:	General
Competency Questions:	What things are contained in this collection (community collective)? What collections this thing is member of?
Solution description:	A class collection represents the concept of a set of entities (things). Things are members of the collection.
Reusable OWL Building Block:	1 (989)
Consequences:	Collections and their members can be associated. Time-indexed membership cannot be represented though (you need a situation-based pattern).
Scenarios:	My saxophone collection includes a Mark VI tenor, a Balanced Action alto, and a Conn Transitional bari.
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Examples (OWL files):
Extracted From:	http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl
Reengineered From:
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Specialization Of:
Related CPs:	Submissions:TimeIndexedMembership

Elements

The Collection Content OP locally defines the following ontology elements:

hasMember (owl:ObjectProperty) A relation between collections and entities, e.g. 'my collection of saxophones includes an old Adolphe Sax original alto' (i.e. my collection has member an Adolphe Sax alto).

hasMember page

isMemberOf (owl:ObjectProperty)

isMemberOf page

Collection (owl:Class) Any container for entities that share one or more common properties. E.g. "stone objects", "the nurses", "the Louvre Aegyptian collection". A collection is not a logical class: a collection is a first-order entity, while a class is a second-order one.

Collection page

Additional information

The collection entity pattern. It is extracted from DOLCE-UltraLite by partial clone of elements.

(type): http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Ontology

(versionInfo): Created by Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti

(comment): The collection entity pattern. It is extracted from DOLCE-UltraLite by partial clone of elements.

(imports): http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/schemas/cpannotationschema.owl

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