Re: VoID Subset

Alasdair,

Thank you very much for this feedback!


> Looking at the vocabulary definition for the property [2] it seems that the interpretation in Section 4.4 is the correct one.


I *think* you've indeed spotted an inconsistency in the guide. If others (Richard, Keith, Jun maybe?) could have a quick sanity check as well pls ...

In general, if you (or others) find a bug or have a feature request, please feel free to use the VoID issue tracker [1] to record this - it tremendously helps us keeping track of things as well as planning for the next release.


> Will another property be added as the inverse of void:subset, or should the declaration of linksets being subsets of a dataset be made in the dataset description?

There are currently no plans to include an inverse property of void:subset, AFAICT.

Cheers,
	   Michael

[1] http://code.google.com/p/void-impl/issues/list?q=product=vocab

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On 2 May 2012, at 11:24, Alasdair J G Gray wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am going through the VoID Note [1] and have some confusion with the way that void:subset is used. It seems that in different parts of the document void:subset is used to declare: (1) "has subset"; and (2) "is subset of".
> 
> In Section 4.4, the void:subset property is used to declare that a dataset has subsets. The example given is,
> :DBPedia a void:Dataset;
> 	 void:subset :DBPedia_shortabstract.
> which is used to declare that dataset :DBPedia_shortabstract is a subset of :DBPedia, i.e. the "has subset" semantics.
> 
> However in Section 5.2, the void:subset property is used to declare that the linkset is a subset of a dataset. The example given is,
> :DBPedia_Geonames a void:Linkset;
> 	 void:subset :DBPedia.
> which is used to declare that dataset :DBPedia_Geonames is a subset of :DBPedia, i.e. the "is subset of" semantics.
> 
> Looking at the vocabulary definition for the property [2] it seems that the interpretation in Section 4.4 is the correct one. Will another property be added as the inverse of void:subset, or should the declaration of linksets being subsets of a dataset be made in the dataset description?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alasdair
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/void/
> [2] http://vocab.deri.ie/void#subset
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