RE: How does RDF/OWL formalism relate to meanings?

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 15:25, John Black wrote:
> Dan,
> 
> Before we continue, would you mind taking a 
> stab at answering the same questions that Pat answered from the 
> point of view of the TAG and the Web architeture?  Or at least 
> the specific question that Pat answered: If I want to make 
> assertions about my specific company and its employees, and 
> have my assertions understood to refer to them and none other, 
> how do I go about that? 

Like he said, I'd use owl:FunctionalProperty and/or
owl:InverseFunctionalProperty.

There's an ESW wiki topic where I started answering the
question in a little more detail... hmm... not much more.

[[
How can I use naming properties to tell that things are the same?

      * use owl:InverseFunctionalProperty. e.g. statecode, iata codes,
        log:uri 
      * @@discuss the cost of dropping the unique names assumption,
        equality reasoning, etc. 
How can I use naming properties to tell things apart?

      * use owl:FunctionalProperty, as in [WWW]mtgppl. 
]]
http://esw.w3.org/topic/PropertiesForNaming


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
see you at the WWW2004 in NY 17-22 May?

Received on Wednesday, 7 April 2004 17:07:22 UTC