conceptscript

ConceptScript is a domain-specific language designed for expressing conceptual models, knowledge graphs, and rule-based reasoning. It provides a declarative syntax for defining concepts, their properties, relationships between concepts, and constraints that govern validity and inference. The language aims to be readable by humans while enabling straightforward translation to graph-based or logical representations for machines.

The core design emphasizes simplicity, modularity, and interoperability. A ConceptScript program declares concepts with typed properties, specifies relations among concepts, and encodes rules or constraints that enable basic reasoning. Concepts can inherit from other concepts, modules can be composed, and scoping rules control visibility. The standard semantics map to graph structures or logic formalisms, allowing export to RDF, JSON-LD, or custom inference engines.

Example:

concept Person {

property name: string

property age: int

relation knows: Person

}

concept Event {

property title: string

property date: date

relation involves: Person

}

Tools and ecosystem: There are reference implementations and linters, with compilers that emit RDF triples or JSON representations. Editor plugins and tutorials exist in academic settings. Interoperability with ontology engineering workflows is a common use case.

Reception and status: ConceptScript remains a niche language, primarily used in research, education, and lightweight modeling tasks. Critics point to learning curves and tooling gaps relative to more established ontology and data modeling languages.

See also: Knowledge representation languages; Ontology engineering.