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OpenMetadata Ontology Introduction

Introduction to the OpenMetadata RDF/OWL ontology.

Overview

The OpenMetadata Ontology provides semantic definitions of all metadata concepts using W3C standards (RDF, OWL).

File: rdf/ontology/openmetadata.ttl

Purpose

  • Formal semantic definitions
  • Knowledge graph integration
  • SPARQL querying
  • Semantic reasoning

Namespaces

@prefix om: <http://open-metadata.org/ontology#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .