Ontologies

Link to an ontology entity

Each item in an ontology has its own web address. When you select a class, relationship, attribute, or instance in the workbench, the browser’s address bar changes to point at it. Copy that address and anyone in your organization who opens it lands on the same item, already selected.

In the app: Data Context › Ontologies › your ontology › any item in the navigator

What the address looks like

/ontologies/{id}/{ontology name}/{kind}/{name}

For example, the relationship assessedBy in an ontology called “Pet Clinic” has an address ending in:

/ontologies/42/Pet%20Clinic/relationships/assessedBy
  • {kind} is always one of classes, relationships, attributes, or instances. These words stay the same whatever naming convention your organization uses, so a link keeps working if an admin switches from Kenseme to OWL or Fabric terms.
  • {name} is the last part of the item’s identifier, after the # or the last /. The full namespace is not part of the address.

Share or bookmark an item

  1. Open the ontology and select the item in the navigator.
  2. Copy the address from the browser’s address bar.
  3. Paste it into a message, a ticket, or your bookmarks.

Ctrl-click, Cmd-click, or middle-click an item in the navigator to open it in a new tab.

Move between items with Back and Forward

Each item you select adds a step to your browser history, so the browser’s Back and Forward buttons step through the items you visited.

Other ways in

  • From the diagram: in the class or relationship panel on the right, every name is a link that opens that item in the workbench. See Visualize the ontology diagram.
  • To the diagram: View in Diagram on a class’s Neighborhood card opens the diagram focused on that class.
  • From a binding workspace: some binding checks link to the ontology item that needs attention. Those links open the workbench with the item selected.

Two items of the same kind can share a name if they come from different namespaces, which happens mostly in imported ontologies. For those items Kenseme uses a longer address that carries the full identifier (?focus=…&kind=…). It works the same way; it’s only less readable.

If a link points at something that no longer exists, for example an item that was deleted or renamed, the ontology opens normally with nothing selected.

Note: A link opens only for people who can see the ontology. Renaming an item’s identifier changes its address, so older links stop selecting it.