Modify > Declare inverse property

This feature is available from the Modify Menu of (relationship) property declarations in Ontologies. It opens a dialog that helps you easily create an inverse property for the current property.

When you create a new relationship property, the dialog already offers you to also create an inverse property. In case you missed that or have to work with ontologies that you did not create, you can use this feature here as a short-cut.

Hint

It is generally a good practice to declare inverse properties. They do not produce overhead in terms of storage, and make it easier to navigate a knowledge graph in both directions.

See Also

• Create Property Dialog

Further Reading on SHACL

• Form Generation using SHACL and DASH (External Link)

• SHACL Advanced Features Specification (External Link)

• SHACL W3C Specification (External Link)

Further Reading on Ontologies

• Working with Ontologies

Further Reading on Modify Menu

• Resource Actions

Further Reading on TopBraid

• Introduction to EDG