Re: How to avoid that collections "break" relationships

On 03/29/2014 03:30 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 5:26 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
>> Hmm. I would be inclined to violate IRI opacity at this point and have
>> a convention that says that any schema.org property schema:ppp can have
>> a sister property called schema:pppList, for any character string ppp.
>> So you ought to check schema:knowsList when you are asked to look for
>> schema:knows. Then although there isn't a link in the conventional
>> sense, there is a computable route from schema:knows to
>> schema:knowsList, which as far as I am concerned amounts to a link.
> Schema.org doesn't suffer from this issue as much as other vocabularies do
> as it isn't defined with RDFS but uses its own, looser description
> mechanisms such as schema:domainIncludes and schema:rangeIncludes. So what
> I'm really looking for is a solution that would work in general, not just
> for some vocabularies.
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> Markus Lanthaler
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I would  like to see some firm definition of just how these looser description 
mechanisms actually work.

peter

Received on Sunday, 30 March 2014 01:11:22 UTC