Introduction to the WUMM RDFData on TRIZ Ontology

This page describes our RDF modelling of TRIZ ontology in more detail. General explanations of our TRIZ modelling can be found on the introductory page.

The basis of the ontology modelling is the SKOS ontology, which allows to model the relationships in conceptual systems in a lightweight way. In order to distinguish the provenance of individual definitions, annotations and examples, different sub-predicates of the relevant SKOS predicates are used.

Texts

• Hans-Gert Gräbe (2021). The WUMM Project on a TRIZ Ontology. Basic Concepts. (pdf).
• Tom Strempel (2021). A Proposal for Modelling TRIZ System Evolution Concepts. (pdf).

Glossaries

SKOS offers the possibility to display several glossaries side by side by compiling the different explanations in different RDF graphs relating them to the same URI. These can then be compared in more detail in a Combined Glossary, which is compiled from these RDF graphs in our RDF Store. See the prototypical implementation of a Combined Glossary in our demo website.

The included concepts all have URIs from the common namespace tc: and the RDF Type skos:Concept. In addition, the concepts are assigned to another subtype of skos:Concept according to their provenance.

The predicates skos:prefLabel and skos:altLabel are used for the labels of the concepts according to the RDF multilinguality concept. This allows SPARQL queries to search for labels in selected languages.

Currently the following glossaries are covered:

• The GSA TRIZ thesaurus https://www.altshuller.ru/thesaur/thesaur.asp - a large multilingual thesaurus of TRIZ concepts (Thesaurus.ttl)
• The glossary of V. Souchkov (v. 1.2) - Souchkov-Glossary.ttl
• The TRIZ-100 glossary of the TRIZ Ontology Project - TOP-Glossary.ttl
• The glossary published with the German TRIZ VDI norm 4521 - VDI-Glossary.ttl
• A glossary published by (Lippert/Cloutier 2019) - Lippert-Glossary.ttl
• A glossary published by N.N. Matvienko - Matvienko-Glossary.ttl

Predicates of a typical entry

• rdf:Type = skos:Concept
  • subtypes od:GSAThesaurusEntry, od:LippertGlossaryEntry, od:MatvienkoGlossaryEntry, od:SouchkovGlossaryEntry, od:VDIGlossaryEntry
• skos:prefLabel Literal = (preferred) name of the concept (multilingual)
• skos:altLabel Literal = alternative name of the concept, synonyms
• skos:definition Literal = definition of the concept
  • subpredicates od:SouchkovDefinition, od:VDIGlossaryDefinition
• skos:example Literal = example explaining the concept
  • subpredicates od:SouchkovExample
• skos:note Literal = note explaining a concept
  • subpredicates od:hasLippertNote

Concept relations

• skos:narrower = subconcept relation (A skos:narrower B means that A is a subconcept of B)
  • subpredicates od:SouchkovCategory

Inventive Standards

Classical Standards

Description: The inventive standards as rooted graph extracted from the (German) TRIZ Online web site with English and Russian versions added.

An (empty) root concept S_0 is added.

Naming convention: E.g., Standard/S_1.2.2 follows the numeration given in the source. This has to be fixed to more expressive names in the future. Also the skos:prefLabel is so far more or less a skos:summary.

od:StandardSolution

• File: StandardSolutions.ttl
• Description: The 76 inventive standards
• Namespace prefix: http://opendiscovery.org/rdf/Standard/
• Predicates
  • skos:broader od:StandardSolution = the parent node of the given concept
  • skos:example Literal = example demonstrating the meaning of the concept
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the concept (a short description of the standard)

Separation Principles

These are closely linked to the standards, see for example (Koltze/Souchkov 2017, 4.3.5) and therefore modelled as generalisations of the standards.

od:SeparationPrinciple

• File: SeparationPrinciples.ttl
• Description: The 4 separation principles
• Namespace prefix: tc:
• Predicates
  • skos:definition Literal = description of the principle
  • skos:narrower od:StandardSolution = related inventive standards
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the concept

Business Standards

Business Standard Solutions proposed by Valeri Souchkov

od:TRIZ_Standard

• File: BusinessStandards.ttl
• Description: a business standard
• Namespace prefix: http://opendiscovery.org/rdf/BusinessStandard/
• Predicates
  • skos:narrower od:TRIZ_StandardGroup = the standard group of that standard
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the concept

od:TRIZ_StandardGroup

• File: BusinessStandards.ttl
• Description: a group of business standards
• Namespace prefix: http://opendiscovery.org/rdf/BusinessStandard/
• Predicates
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the concept

Principles

Description: The principles used in different versions of the matrix.

od:Principle

• File: Principles.ttl
• Namespace prefix: tc:
• Predicates
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the principle
  • skos:note Literal = note explaining the principle
    • subpredicates od:LippertGlossaryNote
  • od:hasAltshuller73Id xsd:integer = number of the principle in (Altshuller 1973)
  • od:hasAltshuller84Id xsd:integer = number of the principle in (Altshuller 1984)
  • od:hasRecommendation od:Recommentation = recommentations for that principle

od:Recommendation

• File: Principles.ttl
• Namespace prefix: tc:
• Predicates
  • od:description Literal = description of the principle

Matrix1985

Description: The ARIZ-85C TRIZ 39x39-matrix in English, German and Russian versions.

For each entry, the deteriorating and improving technical paramaters are linked to the URIs of the recommended principles from Principles.ttl via the corresponding URIs from Parameters.ttl.

od:MatrixEntry

• File: Matrix1985.ttl
• Namespace prefix: http://opendiscovery.org/rdf/Matrix/E.
• Predicates
  • od:decreasingParameter od:Parameter = decreasing parameter
  • od:increasingParameter od:Parameter = increasing parameter
  • od:recommendedPrinciple od:Principle = recommended principle

Parameters

Parameters used in the different versions of the matrix

od:Parameter

• File: Paramters.ttl
• Namespace prefix: tc:
• Predicates
  • skos:prefLabel Literal = label of the parameter
  • skos:definition Literal = definition of the parameter
  • od:hasParameterNumber xsd:integer = number of the parametern in (Altshuller 1984)