Axiom

The package manager for semantic artifacts.

Axiom is a CLI tool for managing the lifecycle of semantic artifacts such as ontologies, application profiles, and their distributions. It brings modern package management concepts -versioning, dependencies, and distribution- to the world of linked data.

Installation

pip install axiom

(or clone and install locally)

git clone https://github.com/semiceu/axiom
cd axiom
pip install -e .

CLI Overview

Axiom follows a modular CLI structure:

axiom [COMMAND] [SUBCOMMAND]

Concepts

Repository

A location where semantic artifacts are stored and shared.

Model

A semantic artifact such as:

• Ontologies (OWL)
• Application profiles
• Controlled vocabularies

Distribution

A concrete representation of a model, for example:

• Turtle file
• JSON-LD serialization
• Packaged release