How to fill an ontology from Java?

Question

I am working with ontologies, and have an OWL file in which my ontology is already all defined, classes, properties Object, among others. I use Protegé 4.1 to fill these policies, creating the instances of each class. But I want to create these instances directly through the java code, using the OWL API, but I couldn’t even find in the documentation how to do it. So what I want is to basically take the ontology created but no instances, and create those instances in the code itself. Has anyone ever done it, or knows how to do it?

Answer 1

During my master’s dissertation I used Jena, which at the time was from hp. That was in 2012. I know that Jena was donated to apache.

Take a look at the Apache Jena. The API to handle ontologies remains similar when it was from hp. See examples here.

I hope it helps.