Re: [Sorry, resend whole message] Re: reusing vocabularies / mapping withowl:equivalentClass

Hi Hugh and others,

> We find ourselves doing things like rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:label  
> for many
> things when we use stuff from outside, so that our human interface  
> tools can
> work. It would be a great help if providers could do that for us,  
> and after
> all they are the people who know best what is sensible.
>
> So Thomas says he would like to see guidance such as:
> "If you want to express that something has a name/title/label, use
> rdfs:label."
> Such advice might be enhanced by:
> If you have something that can play that role, then please establish
> appropriate linkage to rdfs:label in the following way.

Fully agree. One thing one has to consider that by defining  
subproperties of annotation properties (like rdfs:label) you leave the  
solid ground of OWL-DL, cf. <http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/ 
#Annotations>. However if OWL reasoning does not matter this is of  
course no issue.

Best, Bernhard