[protege-discussion] Collect disseminated Individuals

[Tania Tudorache]

Ulf,

In a frames ontology, you can use the methods from the Cls interface:

getInstances() - to get all the instances of a class and of all its 
subclasses

and

getDirectInstances() - to get the instances of a cls (and not of its 
subclasses)

The javadoc of the Cls interface is here:

http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/pdk/api/edu/stanford/smi/protege/model/Cls.html

For an OWL ontology, you can use the call:

 getInstances(boolean includingSubclasses)

from the RDFSClass interface.

If you have Protege OWL related questions, please post in future on the 
Protege-OWL mailing list.

Thanks,
Tania



Ulfert Rist wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> some help is needed on the (trivial?) question, how to make it happen -- primarily with means only of data modelling -- that individuals of a class, individuals of a subclass, and individuals of a subsubclass, can be retrieved in an almost simple way:
>
> class A, individuals A1,A2,A3
> subclass of A: B, with indivuals B1, B2
> subclass of B: C, with indivuals C1, C2
>
> When the user asks for all members of A, then the resulting answer should be {A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, C1, C2} 
>
> Do I need a reasoner here, or skript programming?
>
> Thanks,
> Ulf
>