W3C home > Mailing lists > Public > public-swbp-wg@w3.org > June 2006

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

From: Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:54:01 +0100
Message-ID: <44A56539.2080907@internetalchemy.org>
To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
CC: public-swbp-wg@w3.org, hobbs@ISI.EDU, Feng Pan <pan@ISI.EDU>

On 30/06/2006 17:28, Pat Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>> Thank you for your comment. The redundant equivalentClass will be 
>> removed in the
>> next edition of the time ontology note.
> 
> This kind of redundancy is quite common in published OWL ontologies, we 
> have found. Is it an artifact of some ontology composing tool, does 
> anyone know?

I've seen it from Protege. I've assumed it was an idiom for expressing 
closed classes.

Ian

-- 
http://purl.org/NET/iand
Blogging at... http://iandavis.com/blog
Working on... http://directory.talis.com/
Received on Friday, 30 June 2006 17:54:42 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:17:22 GMT