Include vs Copy

[Branson, GaBriella C]

Hi – when do you recommend using Copy over Include? If you wouldn’t ever do that, what are the use cases where you would use Copy?

 

Thanks!

 

GaBriella

 

[Holger Knublauch]

Hi GaBriella,

I assume you are referring to using Include (owl:imports) in EDG vs importing an RDF file and thus copying its triples into an asset collection.

The difference would be that if the data is copied into an asset collection then it could be edited and processed like any other asset collection.

Files that are owl:imported are assumed to be stable and only changed by experts. This is usually the better option for anything edited outside of TopBraid, such as external namespaces.

In general, using Include (owl:imports) keeps things more cleanly separated and potentially avoids redundancies.

Holger

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[David Price]

Hi GaBriella,

I think the use case for Copy I have seen most often is when feeding schema or data into downstream apps or tools that do not care about/understand the partitioning used to govern the data/schema.

For example, if a code generator (e.g. SHACL schema to Java or C++) is in use then people often prefer one TTL will all classes and properties in it so that the owl:imports statements do not have to be processed by the generator to find all visible classes and properties.

Cheers,

David

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