RDF/OWL Modeling

The 3DEXPERIENCE allows you to create your own Resource Description Framework (RDF) files to improve the 6WTags vocabulary provided by default. The Platform members will use this new vocabulary to filter and tag content related to their own experience using the 6WTags. This section explains how to author RDF/OWL models which can be used to enrich the semantics of 3DExperience apps like the 6WTags. Semantic Modeling refers to the semantic web (or Web 3.0) which is the new generation in the web technology. Comparing to the classic web of documents (Web 2.0), it mainly brings capabilities to support web of linked data that may stem from different sources and can be efficiently treated not only by humans by also by computers. The linked data is empowered by technologies and description formalisms like RDF (Resource Description Language), OWL (Web Ontology Language), and other languages. One of the important aspects related to this technology is the data organization and the use of description languages like RDF/OWL to build vocabularies (or ontology) and hence:

  • enrich data using a triple declaration
  • use a common dictionary of terms that can be shared by various people and knowledge systems on the web.

The following applications use the semantic web technology:

  • Model Customization and Specialize Data Model: A knowledge ontology modeler was developed as meta-modeling language for describing DS and customers’ data schemata.
  • Knowledge Intelligence Editor: A bio application which provides semantic search and annotations (known as tags) capabilities for biological data.
  • 6WTags: An app which is part of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform available in the following DS apps:
    • 3DCompass
    • 3DSwym
    • ENOVIA Web apps
    • Rich-Client apps


In this section:

About RDF/OWL Vocabulary Concepts
Basic RDF and OWL Elements
Vocabulary Definition and Syntax