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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions WuV/onto_general.tex
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This part is commonly called the \textbf{ABox} (A for assertional).
\end{compactitem}

TBox declarations tend to be more permanent within a knowledge base and are used as a schema.
In contrast, ABox declarations are much more dynamic in nature and tend to represent instance data.
For instance, we can understand relational databases as ontologies made up of table definitions as TBox declarations and table rows as ABox declarations.
There, both kind of declarations are even separately stored for efficiency reasons, and in particular, the concrete way of representing table rows
as bits is determined by the corresponding table definitions.
However, such a hard distinction is not necessarily the case for other ontology languages.
For example, in the ontology language OWL or in general in triplestores, both kind of declarations are stored next to each other and the syntactic representation distinction blurs.
Nonetheless, we can usually distinguish between both declarations by their usage and lifecycle during the development of a concrete ontology.

A separate division into two parts is the following:
\begin{compactitem}
\item The \textbf{signature} part contains everything that introduces a \textbf{named entity}: individuals, concepts, relations, and properties.
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