- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 14:42:17 -0000
- To: "Jan Wielemaker" <jan@swi.psy.uva.nl>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> How far however should it go? Can someone make a sub-property if > rdf:type and claim that a new subject with this property belongs to > the specified type? > > Given the fact that rdf:type is part of base RDF, where sub-properties > are part of RDFS suggests this might not be a good idea. It might also > seriously harm performance as adding/deleting such a subproperty relation > can have huge consequences. I think one should definitely be able to have a subproperty of rdf:type. RDFS would be inconsistent otherwise. It wouldn't be a good idea to do so in general, though it may help bridge a gap between a non-RDF system with a similar feature, and RDF.
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