natural language definition

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/annotation/naturalLanguageDefinition

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/

Type: Annotation Property

SubProperty Of: definition

Definition

definition written in plain text for human understanding

This annotation is Required for each non-primitive or non-axiomatic class of an IOF (OWL or Common Logic) ontology.

It is optional for primitive (aka axiomatic) classes since for such classes the Elucidation annotation is required and will satisfy the role of a natural language definition.
It is optional, but recommended, for relations when the intent of a relation may be misunderstood.
There should be at most one.
This natural language definition should be subject matter expert friendly and consistent with any formal definition or elucidation.
Natural language definitions should use class and relation names with following caveats: a) Relations – For those relations whose label (i.e. local identifier) consist of multiple terms hyphenate the terms of the label: e.g. ‘hasPlan’ would be written as ‘has-plan’ b) Classes – For classes whose label has multiple distinct terms, e.g, ManufacturingOperationSpecification, separate the terms but bound them with apostrophe marks: ‘Manufacturing Operation Specification’.

SubPropertyOf: _:definition