Re: [OEP] Draft of a note on n-ary relations

Hello,

I would like to extend my previous message [1] on n-ary relations, with 
another remark/option.

Instead of using sub-properties to reify the roles of the n-ary property 
one could also use them to bear an additional qualification.
For instance, to say that a person (John) has a temperature on 38 degree 
Celsius and increasing, one could also use the following representation:


ex:hasATemperatureOf
   rdf:type             rdf:Property

ex:hasADecreasingTemperatureOf
   rdfs:subPropertyOf   ex:hasATemperatureOf

ex:hasAnIncreasingTemperatureOf
   rdfs:subPropertyOf   ex:hasATemperatureOf

ex:hasAStableTemperatureOf
   rdfs:subPropertyOf   ex:hasATemperatureOf


#John
  ex:hasAnIncreasingTemperatureOf  "38D.C."


Fabien

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swbp-wg/2004May/0128.html
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