- From: Bob Ferris <zazi@smiy.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:42:54 +0200
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Renato, On 10/15/2012 08:30 AM, Renato Iannella wrote: > > On 14 Oct 2012, at 04:31, James McKinney <james@opennorth.ca > <mailto:james@opennorth.ca>> wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick reply, Renato. Having re-read the RFC, I see the >> need for the classes. Would it be possible, though, to add shortcuts, >> eg ex:james v:tel "tel:+1-800-555-0199"? I find that many ontologies >> that use n-ary relations also provide a direct relation. > > The idea is good...but are the implications now that we have two ways to > represent a telephone number? > Can u point to some examples to review? there are currently three opportunities to express that an n-ary relation and a "shortcut" relation belongs semantically together: 1. OWL property chain axioms [1] 2. SPARQL construct [2] 3. The Property Reification Vocabulary [3] ... depending on which level and use case you would like to express this knowledge. Cheers, Bo [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/#Property_Chains [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/#construct [3] http://purl.org/ontology/prv/core#
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