Re: Individuals with more than one rdf:type

On Sep 19, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Richard Newman wrote:

> RDF types are not object oriented classes. RDF instances are not  
> objects. They do not inherit anything in the OO sense.

Got it -- "inherit" is a dirty word. The issue I'm dealing with is  
that the internal model of my application is indeed more closely  
related to the OO class/object model, so I'm trying to figure out the  
most useful way to publish that information as RDF documents and OWL  
ontologies.

For example, classes can have properties in likn, and I'm trying to  
determine a good way to represent that in RDF/OWL. My current plan is  
to simply copy out the properties of a class to its individuals when  
serializing to RDF/XML. I don't know of a better way to represent,  
for example, the concept "all individuals of the class CocaColaCans  
have the property 'color' with the value Red."

Any suggestions?

- ben syverson
likn.org

Received on Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:51:48 UTC