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Re: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

From: Jens Lehmann <lehmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:37:29 +0100
Message-ID: <4921ABD9.7050402@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
To: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
CC: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>, Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, public-lod@w3.org, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, dbpedia-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net


Hello,

John Goodwin wrote:
> 
>> John's comment relates to (at least) the axioms on "publisher":
>> 
>> The semantics of range mean that you have essentially asserted that
>>  the range of published is [Person and Company]. If you want the 
>> union, you'll have to explicitly use the unionOf constructor here.
> 
> Thanks Sean, yup that's the one. There were a few other cases of that
> elsewhere as well. 

That's indeed a bug, which we need to fix (should have come out as union
instead). You made it kind of hard for me to understand your first post
correctly. ;-)

> This is also a good example of where (IMHO) the
> domain was perhaps over specified. For example all sorts of things
> could have publishers, and not the ones listed here. I worry that if
> you reuse DBpedia "publisher" elsewhere you could get some undesired
> inferences.

In the future, there will be a user interface for specifying
domains/ranges. (Georgi is working on it.) We hope that the quality of
the schema will increase over time.

Kind regards,

Jens

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