3 - Viewing your Ontology

📖 Task Introduction

Objects, properties, and links appear in many different “Ontology-aware” applications in Foundry. In this task, you’ll use the Object Explorer application to inspect some aviation objects that illustrate the principles in the previous task.

🔨 Task Instructions

1. Open Object Explorer by selecting it from the list of apps in the Workspace Sidebar.
2. To the left of the search bar, click the All ▾ dropdown.
3. Switch from the Groups category to Object types, then, in the window search bar, find and select [Example Data] Aircraft as the object type.
4. In the main search bar (“Search object types and properties...”) enter N101NN as shown below.

5. Hit the enter key to search. In a few seconds, the result returns below the search bar (i.e., N101NN: Airbus A321-231). Click it to be taken to the object. You are now looking at a configurable Object View for a particular aircraft object of the type [Example Data] Aircraft.
6. Click on the Metadata and Links tab and note the two main sections: Links and Properties.

You can now see how the Ontology represents the columns of a backing dataset (discussed in the next task). The Links section displays direct and transitive links to other objects in the ontology (akin to table joins in a relational database), and the Properties section depicts the column values for the N101NN row in the backing dataset as properties on the object.