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.. index:: pair: Ontologies; Exporting

.. _exporting_ontologies_target:

Exporting Ontologies
--------------------

There are export options to produce RDF serialization of the ontology, Publish it to Explorer and query it with GraphQL.

.. _ seealso:: See `Exporting Data`_ for more information on these options.

There are also two export options specific to ontologies.
They are described below.

Export Ontology as RDF Schema File
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Available for ontology collections only.
Produces a simple, approximated RDF Schema version based on locally defined classes and SHACL property shapes, for use in external tools.

Export Ontology as OWL File
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Available for ontology collections only.
Produces a simple, approximated OWL version based on locally defined classes and SHACL property shapes, for use in external tools.