- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:59:58 -0500
- To: "Boris Motik" <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: "W3C OWL Working Group" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Boris Motik <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > This declaration has no special meaning: owl:NamedIndividual is not assigned any special meaning in the vocabulary of OWL 2. The > vocabulary element is used only to denote that 8:x is declared. > > Note that writing *:x rdf:type olw:Thing would be ambiguous. You get the same triple by serializing this axiom: > > ClassAssertion( owl:Thing *:x ) This is a useless axiom. Therefore I suggest that we consider it the declaration. -Alan > > To distinguish the two, we need a new vocabulary element to tag declarations of named individuals. > > Regards, > > Boris > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg >> Sent: 11 November 2008 08:16 >> To: W3C OWL Working Group >> Subject: What is the rationale for "*:x rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual" ? >> >> >> Why is this needed? >> >> BTW, Does this mean that owl:NamedIndividual is a subclass of owl:Thing? >> >> -Alan > > >
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