Re: shapes as classes

On Dec 18, 2014 6:10 PM, "Arthur Ryman" <ryman@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
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> Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com> wrote on 12/15/2014 06:06:22 PM:
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> > > In OSLC Resource Shapes, a shape program consists of a set of related
> RDF
> > > :ResourceShape resources.
> >
> > To clarify: with "related" you mean via oslc:valueShape, or how else?
> > With valueShape you could only cover connected subgraphs, not arbitrary
> > graphs.
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> There are two OSLC mechanisms for defining a set of related shapes:
> 1. A service, e.g. a URL where you can POST requests to create new
> resources, may link to one or more shape resources using
> oslc:resourceShape
> 2. A resource shape may contain links to one or more other resource shapes
> associated with the values of properties using oslc:valueShape
>
> Yes, this means that OSLC resource shapes can only describe OO-like
> connected graphs. That is a limitation which I pointed out in [1]. I hope
> this WG will define a spec that can handle disconnected graphs.

What are some examples of when this is needed?

> [1] http://www.w3.org/Submission/shapes/#disconnected-graphs
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