- From: Aldo Gangemi <a.gangemi@istc.cnr.it>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:53:34 +0000
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
At 11:48 +0100 31-03-2004, Jeremy Carroll wrote: >More on the content of your message about http://..../City >Aldo Gangemi wrote: >>But also look at the file at http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/City: City is a >>class introduced with all its taxonomic branch (poor practice: if each class >>is introduced with all its superclasses, the ontology results unnecessary >>long), >I am less than convinced - for a very big, or infinite ontology, this is a >*necesary* practice (good or bad) since otherwise any use of the ontology >requires a huge (possibly infinite) download. >I am currently working on an ontology for language tags, based on RFC >3066bis, which is infinite - I was thinking of using a similar approach to >the one above to give finite views of relevant parts of the ontology, so that >any use could be achieved by downloading all the URLs constructed with >language tags actually present in your data. >If all you want to know about is City then the City download is a good one, >if you want to know about more than that, maybe you need the full download >(wherever that is). >Jeremy Got the point, it is an efficiency issue. Is there any tool to convert an OWL (or RDF) ontology into a set of "views files", possibly based on customizable properties (e.g., "give me only a superclass specification view", or "give me subclasses and related classes specification view"? Thanks Aldo -- Aldo Gangemi Research Scientist Laboratory for Applied Ontology ISTC-CNR Via Nomentana 56, Rome, Italy +39.06.86090249 ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
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