Ontology Design Patterns for Linked Data Publishing

In Chapter 1 [17], we have given a worked example on how to develop a modular ontology using ontology design patterns. In the following, we will work through an example process how to use such an ontology for publishing Linked Data. Supplementary material, such as additional examples, OWL, and RDF files, are available at http://dase.cs.wright.edu/content/pattern-driven-linked-data-publishing-primer. Linked Data – or Linked Open Data if the reference is to Linked Data that is openly available in the sense of liberal re-use licenses [25] – refers to the publishing of data on the Web following a few very straightforward principles [7], foremost among them the use of the Resource Description Framework (RDF).1 Linked Data has seen very signficant uptake since its inception in 2006.2 In 2014, over