Re: Domain and range are useful Re: DBpedia 3.2 release, including DBpedia Ontology and RDF links to Freebase

Dan Brickley a écrit :
> I do recommend against using RDFS/OWL to express application/dataset
> constraints, while recognising that there's a real need for recording
> them in machine-friendly form. In the Dublin Core world, this topic is
> often discussed in terms of "application profiles", meaning that we want
> to say things about likely and expected data patterns, rather than doing
> what RDFS/OWL does and merely offering machine dictionary definitions of
> terms.

Why would you recommend against it?

Would not a good practice be to simply separate in two RDF graphs
- "intensional" axioms, those representing the meaning of the terms
  and that should be assumed by people reusing the vocabulary
- "extensional" axioms, those representing properties/constraints of
  the dataset, that should be used to check its
  consistency/completeness.

Depending on their need, people would only import the first graph, or
both of them...

  pa