Re: FOAF and relationship

How about defining "foaf:knowsEachOther" as a sub-property of  foaf:knows?

foaf:knowsEachOther rdf:type owl:SymmetricProperty 
foaf:knowsEachOther rdfs:subPropertyOf foaf:knows

As Jeremy Carroll and Tim Nowaczyk pointed out, it may be useful to do so.


Yuzhong Qu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Lindesay" <victor@schemaweb.info>
To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 4:01 AM
Subject: RE: FOAF and relationship


> 
> Tim wrote:
> 
> > So, foaf:knows is a symmetric property.
> 
> Not sure. I may have a 'reciprocated interaction' with a person which I
> consider significant enough to put in my FOAF but they may not know me
> from Adam :-) or worse still they might not want to know me :-(
> 
> Not defined as symmetric in the schema either.
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/index.rdf

> 
> FOAFsters on rdfweb-dev have pondered the semantic of foaf:knows at
> great length over the years and recognised that its use is a personal
> declaration which maybe useful, but nothing more. 
> 
> 
>

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