How can one create an OWL 2 annotation with the OWL-API

Question

I want to create the following

  s p xlt .
  _:x rdf:type owl:Axiom .
  _:x owl:annotatedSource s .
  _:x owl:annotatedProperty p .
  _:x owl:annotatedTarget xlt 

I saw somehwere the code for doing so in Jena, I would like to know if there is a way to do using the OWL-API? The statement does not have to exist in the actual ontology. It is meant more to represent provenance.

Answer 1

An annotated axiom in an ontology is still an axiom in the ontology. If you really want something for provenance, you're going to have to do something a bit different, I think.

In your case, though, it looks like you just want an ObjectPropertyAssertionAxiom that has some annotations. You'll just want to use the OWLDataFactory method getOWLObjectPropertyAssertionAxiom which takes a property, individual, object, and a set of OWLAnnotations .

The OWLAPI documentation also includes a large number of examples, including one that shows how to create and read annotations , which may or may not be instructive in your case.