Re: abstract class

Collegues,
Suppose your discussion is very close to problem discussed in the SUO
mailing list - http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/suo/email/msg01889.html

Leonid
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Carrion" <marc_carrion@yahoo.es>
To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@spin.ie>; <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 3:25 AM
Subject: RE: abstract class


>
>
> --- Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie> wrote:
> >
> > >   thing in all objects that can have color, all
> > them
> > > will have the property color, then the domain of
> > the
> > > property color is going to be ObjectsWithColor,
> > but we
> > > don't want objects that are type of
> > ObjectsWithColor
> > > ant not type of anything else.
> >
> > Again I think you are confusing "Class" in OO with
> > "Class" in RDF.
>   I'm sorry, I'm not confusing the both models, I'm
> saying we would like to have one funcionality in
> RDF-Schema, that we don't have now
>
> > <x> <rdf:type> <ObjectsWithColor> doesn't mean that
> > <x> is not of any type
> > other than <ObjectsWithColor>. It is perfectly okay
> > to have that statement
> > on its own.
>   I know, I just want to say that I don't want this
> statement in my model.
>
> > Similarly in you're earlier example <#foo>
> > <rdf:type> <A> entails the
> > statement <#foo> <rdf:type> <C>.
> >
> > Indeed it for any resource #bar one can accurately,
> > if needlessly compose
> > the RDF/XML:
> >
> > <rdfs:Resource id="#bar"/>, and that's a superclass
> > even of your <C> class.
> >
> > This isn't a programming language. It is a language
> > for describing
> > resources.
>   I know, you can use UML to describe models too, it's
> not a programming language and you can use abstract
> ideas.
>
> > Compare with English. When I say "I am a human
> > being", that statement isn't
> > untrue because I didn't use the more accurate "I am
> > a man" or "I am an
> > Irishman" or "I am a married Irish Software
> > Developer between the ages of 25
> > to 35 in full-time employment who is registered to
> > vote and doesn't drive a
> > car".
>   I know it's not incorrect, but it's useless, I don't
> want to allow people to say useless information. When
> you say you are a human being you are also saying you
> are a man or a woman, that's the info I would like to
> have. If one day we add clones to the definition of
> human beings, it's going to be ok to think that when
> you say you are a human being you mean you are a man
> or a woman or a clone.
>
> > Classes in RDF are far more comparable to nouns in
> > English than to classes
> > in OO.
> >
>   I don't totally agree. If you use RDF correctly you
> can represent the same that in UML (I think I saw the
> UML Vocabulary in RDF). Everything depends on the use
> you want for your RDF data.
>
>   Regards,
>           Marc
>
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Received on Friday, 24 January 2003 00:54:54 UTC