Re: Shapes, Individuals, and Classes - OSLC Motivations

* Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> [2014-11-12 15:13-0800]
> On 11/12/2014 02:31 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> >
> >On 11/13/14, 8:24 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> >>RDFS is part of the RDF spec, so we do not have to go beyond the RDF spec to
> >>get the benefits of RDFS.
> >
> >Which benefits do you mean? Inferencing?
> >
> >(In general I admit I often find your statements enigmatic. It's often unclear
> >to me what solution you are proposing).
> 
> Well, then I'm having the effect I want.
> 
> At this point I'm not advocating or even proposing a solution.  I
> am, however, trying to tease out just what others are advocating or
> proposing and pointing out statements that are not correct.
> 
> The statement here was that RDFS is not part of the RDF spec.
> That's not true.  To get the benefits of RDFS (any maybe I should
> have said, if any) you don't need to go beyond the RDF spec.

We need (relatively non-controversial) labels to say that we do or do
not expect a shape definition to include RDFS inferencing (not
addressing fragments thereof at this point). If we are careful not to
say "RDF spec" can we use "graph entailment" and "RDFS entailment"?


> I do also believe that RDFS has benefits, namely its notions of a
> class and property hierarchy and domains and ranges on properties.
> (I'm not saying that RDFS is the best ontology language, or even a
> very good one, but RDFS does provide some interesting capabilities.)
> 
> 
> >Holger
> 
> peter
> 
> 

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