Open Knowledge Base Connectivity
Encyclopedia
Open Knowledge Base Connectivity (OKBC) is a protocol and an API
for accessing knowledge in knowledge representation
systems such as ontology
repositories and object-relational database
s. It is somewhat complementary to the Knowledge Interchange Format
that serves as a general representation language for knowledge.
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
for accessing knowledge in knowledge representation
Knowledge representation
Knowledge representation is an area of artificial intelligence research aimed at representing knowledge in symbols to facilitate inferencing from those knowledge elements, creating new elements of knowledge...
systems such as ontology
Ontology (computer science)
In computer science and information science, an ontology formally represents knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships between those concepts. It can be used to reason about the entities within that domain and may be used to describe the domain.In theory, an ontology is...
repositories and object-relational database
Object-relational database
An object-relational database , or object-relational database management system , is a database management system similar to a relational database, but with an object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas and in the query language...
s. It is somewhat complementary to the Knowledge Interchange Format
Knowledge Interchange Format
Knowledge Interchange Format is a computer-oriented language for the interchange of knowledge among disparate computer programs.It has declarative semantics ; it is logically comprehensive Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is a computer-oriented language for the interchange of knowledge among...
that serves as a general representation language for knowledge.