Re: shapes as classes

Please feel free to edit the page and come up with a better wording. It 
was just a proposal. We can fight about words forever, without making 
progress.

Holger


On 12/13/14, 9:35 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> So RDF classes are not shapes, and neither are OWL classes.
>
> But why then does 
> https://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/wiki/Resource_Shape_Association 
> say that classes are shapes?
>
> peter
>
>
> On 12/12/2014 03:11 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
>> This depends on how you define the term Shape. To me, a Shape is a 
>> group of
>> connected constraints, so if a class has no constraints then it is 
>> not really
>> a Shape (unless you include the unconstrained Shape to be a Shape too).
>>
>> Holger
>>
>>
>> On 12/13/14, 9:02 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>> But are all classes shapes?
>>>
>>> peter
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/12/2014 02:52 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/13/14, 3:40 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>>>> If "Shape" is more general than "Class", shouldn't all classes be 
>>>>> shapes?
>>>>
>>>> Some classes are just named entities without any constraints.
>>>>
>>>> Holger
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>

Received on Saturday, 13 December 2014 00:10:06 UTC