06/22/2026
Owlready2 0.51 has been released!
Owlready is a Python module for ontology-oriented programming. It can load OWL 2.0 ontologies and manipulate them transparently in Python.
Here are the changes:
Optimize SPARQL queries
Allows manual SPARQL optimization using INDEXED BY SUBJECT or OBJECT keywords
Support for JSON datatype (list or dict)
Support for JSON_EXTRACT() extra SPARQL function
Experimental support for triple term (for RDF 1.2)
When extracting UMLS, add UMLS version in PYM.metadata.versionInfo
Update Xerces JAR file in Pellet, to avoid vulnerability
Bugfixes:
Fix NQuads format to behave as expected: graph label at the end (and not at the beginning)
The new version be downloaded from PyPI (Python Package Index): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Owlready2



