Re: Two Standards ?

On 2/14/2015 10:42, Michel Dumontier wrote:
> It's not that we would only have a shape for any class, it is that we 
> might have zero or more shapes defined for any subset of the graph of 
> interest, including classes.
>
> Consider this: I want to assert that all predicates in my RDF graph 
> must be annotated with rdfs:label. I am not, however, stating that 
> this is universally true of RDF predicates, and nor is this a class 
> (although it could be considered a class expression).  We already have 
> RDF(S)/OWL for descriptions and classification, and I think that 
> shapes are not *only* special intensions of ontologically-defined classes.

We have Global Constraints for your use case:

https://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/data-shapes-primer/#global-constraints

>
> all this being said, I think that a shape is itself a class, and can 
> be described using RDF/OWL. It has special properties and special 
> powers that we will imbue it so that intelligent applications 
> correctly apply its WG defined semantics.

+1

Holger

Received on Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:15:20 UTC