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<p>Behaviors are a means to extend traditional ruby classes/objects with ontological information.</p>
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<h2>The “Ontology” Behavior</h2>
<p>The ontology behavior uses a specified attribute of a class (default is name) as an ontology term. A query is made to find all the relationships of the ontology term contained within a triple store. These are accessed via the ontology method on an instance of a class.</p>
<h3>Code Example</h3>
<p>This example is based on some terms in the <a href="http://www.rsna.org/radlex/">Radlex 2.0 ontology</a>.</p>
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require 'active_sesame'
class OntologyTest
attr_accessor :owl_term
ActiveSesame::Behaviors::Ontology.mimic(self)
end
ot = OntologyTerm.new
ot.owl_term = "http://www.owl-ontologies.com/Ontology1241733063#RID3436"
ot.ontology #Builds a ActiveSesame::Ontology::Term for the value of owl_term
ot.ontology.relationships
ot.ontology.Preferred_Name.term #Looks up relationships and returns the Ontology::Term for its value
ot.ontology.Is_A
ot.ontology.Is_A.Preferred_Name
end
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