Ontopoiesis

Lint, test, diff, and CI for OWL 2 ontologies, from a single command line.

Ontopoiesis builds an OWL/XML ontology into a Cypher-queryable Ontoplexis projection, then runs the day-to-day workflows around that one artifact: query, lint, test, diff, impact analysis, render, migrate, and export. Quality gates are plain .cypher files that fail when they return rows, so teams extend the rule set the way they write dbt tests. The stock rules provide targeted structural checks, while the documented case studies also show case-specific analysis and distinguish demonstrated defects, modeling risks, and policy-backed findings from compatibility facts and clean controls (why this exists).

Scope

Ontopoiesis owns command-oriented workflows and their conventions. It does not own the OWL/XML parser or graph projection model; those belong to Ontoplexis. It also does not parse formats other than OWL/XML, resolve imports or reason in-process, or provide typed OWL construct models. Optional convert, resolve, and reason commands delegate those preprocessing jobs to a user-provided ROBOT jar.

Relationship to the stack

OWL/XML  -->  Ontoplexis projection  -->  Ontopoiesis workflows

Ontopoiesis depends on Ontoplexis. Ontophora is a separate sister library that provides typed OWL 2 construct records; it is not a dependency of this CLI.

Install

pip install ontopoiesis

ontopoiesis build pizza.owlxml -o pizza.lbug
ontopoiesis lint pizza.lbug
ontopoiesis test pizza.lbug tests/
ontopoiesis export pizza.lbug

Documentation

Read the documentation for installation, the quickstart, command guides, and CLI reference.

License

Ontopoiesis is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.