ISO/IEC 21838-4:2023

Information technology — Top-level ontologies (TLO) — Part 4: TUpper ISO/IEC 21838-4:2023

Publication date:   Sep 19, 2023

Scope

This document describes TUpper as an ontology that is conformant to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1.
This document describes TUpper as a resource designed to support ontology design, ontology integration, automated reasoning, and semantic integration of heterogeneous information systems.
The following are within the scope of this document:
—     definitions of classes and relations in the signature of TUpper;
—     axiomatizations of TUpper in OWL 2 and CL;
—     documentation of the conformity of TUpper to the requirements specified for top-level ontologies in ISO/IEC 21838-1;
—     documentation of the methodology for specifying domain ontologies that conform to TUpper.
The following are outside the scope of this document:
—     specification of ontology languages, including the languages RDF, OWL and CL standardly used in ontology development;
—     specification of methods for reasoning with ontologies;
—     specification of translators between the notations of ontologies developed in different ontology languages.