07/27/2019

Owlready2 0.19 has been released!

Owlready is a Python module for ontology-oriented programming. It can load OWL 2.0 ontologies and manipulate them transparently in Python.

This new version has a better SPARQL support, faster searches, and it adds the "individual.INVERSE_property" syntax. It also supports the new UMLS zipped file format.

Here are the changes:

  • Consider symmetric properties as their own inverse properties

  • Update Python objects after basic SPARQL update/delete queries (works on user-defined properties, hierarchical properties (type/subclassof) and equivalence properties)

  • Add individual.INVERSE_property

  • Add Class.INDIRECT_is_a

  • INDIRECT_is_a / INDIRECT_is_instance_of now include class contructs. ancestors() has a 'include_constructs' parameter, which defaults to False.

  • Add more aliases for XMLSchema datatypes

  • Add is_a property to class constructs

  • Add bottomObjectProperty and bottomDataProperty

  • Support ReflexiveProperties in individual.INDIRECT_property

  • Optimize Thing.subclasses()

  • Optimize search() with multiple criteria, including those done by PyMedTermino

  • Add support for destroy_entity(SWRL_rule)

  • Add support for UMLS "metathesaurus" format in addition to "full" format

  • Bugfixes: - After reasoning, keep all equivalent classes as parents of individuals (as they may have methods) - Fix IndividualPropertyAtom when creating SWRL rule - Fix SWRL parser - Fix RDF serialization for nested RDF lists - Fix removing inverse property (i.e. Prop.inverse = None) - Fix datetime parsing for date with time zone or milliseconds

The new version be downloaded from PyPI (Python Package Index): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Owlready2