Re: Question about MARCXML to Models transformation

Quoting Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>:


>
> Well, if you need it such a "bibliographic blob", my two cents would  
> be to just go for it and create this new class. But create it as a  
> union of the classes for W, E, M or I. This is perfectly allowed,  
> isn't it?
>
> And then just use OWL for representing this axiom, et voila,  
> according to the OWL semantics [1], W is all of a sudden a subclass  
> of your blob, and so are E, M and I. I really don't see any reason  
> for which one could not do that.
>

FRBRCore and FRBRoo already have created a super-class of WEMI (each in
their own way, of course:-)). FRBRer, the "version" of FRBR that  
should beofficially sanctioned by IFLA, does not have that and I have  
heard it said
that the IFLA FRBR WG does not wish for there to be such a class. I don't
know the reasoning behind it, and hope that someone who does know could
bring that into the conversation.

Don't the sub-classes need to be defined in relation to the super-class?
If so, then you can't create a WEMI super-class and connect it to FRBRer
because FRBRer WEMI would not themselves have it defined as their  
super-class. OR
can you? Can you have a super-class with sub-classes even though the
sub-classes are ignorant of the relationship?

kc


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Received on Tuesday, 8 March 2011 23:02:51 UTC