RE: How to avoid that collections "break" relationships

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 5:26 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
> Hmm. I would be inclined to violate IRI opacity at this point and have
> a convention that says that any schema.org property schema:ppp can have
> a sister property called schema:pppList, for any character string ppp.
> So you ought to check schema:knowsList when you are asked to look for
> schema:knows. Then although there isn't a link in the conventional
> sense, there is a computable route from schema:knows to
> schema:knowsList, which as far as I am concerned amounts to a link.

Schema.org doesn't suffer from this issue as much as other vocabularies do
as it isn't defined with RDFS but uses its own, looser description
mechanisms such as schema:domainIncludes and schema:rangeIncludes. So what
I'm really looking for is a solution that would work in general, not just
for some vocabularies.


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> Well, there is going to have to be some pain somewhere. I get the
> impression that you want all of these to be true at once:
> 
> 1. schema:knows applies to both individuals and to documents listing
> individuals, and works for both of them.
> 2. schema:knows is declared to only have individuals in its range.

No, I would be happy if it would be state explicitely that the range also
include collections/lists.

> 3. RDFS and OWL reasoning will work on schema:knows.

No, not in the case of schema but there are other vocabularies where it is
important.


> And sorry, this is impossible.

Yes, unfortunately.



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Received on Saturday, 29 March 2014 22:30:54 UTC