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Re: comment: discussion of OWL n-ary constructs?

From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:24:28 -0600
To: Jeff Pan <pan@cs.man.ac.uk>
Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
Message-Id: <1108646669.4991.632.camel@localhost> 

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:18 +0000, Jeff Pan wrote:
> > I was just reading over some historical OWL stuff, and
> > I was reminded of the awkward fit between some 3-ary
> > and 4-ary constructs in OWL, given RDF's binary limitations.
> 
> Those are meta-relations instead of relations among individuals.

Hm... I'm not sure what a meta-relation is, but please explain
it in the n-aryRelations draft in any case.

> > Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-swbp-n-aryRelations-20040721/

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