- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@miscoranda.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 08:27:24 +0000
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Is there a way to express, in an ontology, that a property's range is in a particular datatype even if the datatype isn't present in the instance? In other words, say I have a property called :numberOfFish, and in one instance I have: :John :numberOfFish "5" . and in another: :Mary :numberOfFish "15"^^xsd:integer . In the schema I want to make it clear that lexical values must be taken from xsd:integer but that you're free to omit the datatype declaration in the instance and can consider it to be regarded an xsd:integer anyway. So the first triple should entail :John :numberOfFish "5"^^xsd:integer. This has come up in FOAF before, which demurs from using datatypes before this opt/man issue is sorted out, and it's come up in my own current meteorological ontology. (CCing www-rdf-logic to help reach the right audience, even though it's traditionally used only for CFP spam.) -- Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/
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