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Re: comment: equivalentClass is redundant in several time ontology parts

From: Feng Pan <pan@ISI.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:58:14 -0700
Message-ID: <1151675893.44a52df601614@webmail.isi.edu>
To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Cc: public-swbp-wg@w3.org, hobbs@ISI.EDU

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your comment. The redundant equivalentClass will be removed in the
next edition of the time ontology note.

Thanks!

Feng

Quoting Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>:

> 
> In
> http://www.isi.edu/~pan/SWBP/time-ontology-note/time-ontology-note-3rdEd.html
> 
> I see:
> 
> :TemporalUnit
>       a       owl:Class ;
>       owl:equivalentClass
>               [ a       owl:Class ;
>                 owl:oneOf (:unitSecond :unitMinute :unitHour :unitDay
> :unitWeek :unitMonth :unitYear)
>               ] .
> 
> It means pretty much the same thing if you just write:
> 
> :TemporalUnit
>       a       owl:Class ;
>       owl:oneOf (:unitSecond :unitMinute :unitHour :unitDay :unitWeek
> :unitMonth :unitYear).
> 
> 
> Likewise you can shorten...
> 
> :TemporalEntity
>       a       owl:Class ;
>       rdfs:subClassOf :TemporalThing ;
>       owl:equivalentClass
>               [ a       owl:Class ;
>                 owl:unionOf (:Instant :Interval)
>               ] .
> 
> to just...
> 
> :TemporalEntity
>       a       owl:Class ;
>       rdfs:subClassOf :TemporalThing ;
>       owl:unionOf (:Instant :Interval).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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> 
> 
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