Organs Ontology

An ontology to describe organs, their properties and their evolution.

🔗 Ontology URI: https://w3id.org/polifonia/ontology/organs/

The Organs ontology module of the Polifonia ontology network represents concepts and relationships that describe pipe organs. The ontology describes the organ in a two-fold way:

• as a musical instrument that consists of parts
• as a focal point of a project that describes the historical changes of the organ throughout the years.

Relevant statistics

• Number of classes: 33
• Number of object properties: 22
• Number of datatype properties: 12
• Number of logical axioms: 73

Competency questions addressed by this ontology module

ID	Competency question
CQ1	Who built and/or renovated an organ?
CQ2	What was the disposition of the organ at a specific point in time?
CQ3	What are the original parts of the organ?
CQ4	Where are the original parts of an organ?
CQ5	Where is an organ located originally?
CQ6	When is an organ moved to another location?
CQ7	Why is an organ moved to another location?

Competency questions that will be addressed by this ontology module

ID	Competency question
CQ8	What are the sources of the project that an organ is involved in?
CQ9	Which resources mention an organ?
CQ10	Which resources mention an organ builder?

Examples of SPARQL queries addressed by the module

• Who built an organ?

PREFIX organs: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/organs/>
PREFIX core: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/core/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?agent
WHERE { 
?organ core:isDescribedBy ?project .
?project core:hasAgentRole ?agentRole .
?agentRole core:hasRole ?role .

FILTER(str(?role)='builder')
}

• What was the disposition of the organ at a specific point in time?

PREFIX organs: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/organs/>
PREFIX core: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/core/>

SELECT DISTINCT ?partHood ?timeinterval
WHERE { 
?organ core:isWholeincludedIn ?parthood . 
?parthood a core:Parthood .
?parthood core:hasTimeInterval ?timeInterval .

• Where is an organ located originally?

PREFIX organs: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/organs/>
PREFIX core: <https://w3id.org/arco/ontology/core/>
PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>

SELECT DISTINCT ?place
WHERE { 
?organ core:isDescribedBy ?project .
?project core:hasPlace ?place .
?place a core:PhysicalPlace . 
?project core:isFirstProject ?isFirstProject .
FILTER(xsd:Boolean(?isFirstProject) = True)

Imported ontologies

Imported from the Polifonia Ontology Network

• Core Module

Licence

CC BY