Re: Shapes vs Classes (in LDOM)

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
wrote:

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> On 1/24/15, 4:03 PM, Jose Emilio Labra Gayo wrote:
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>> Also, although it was not the case in my example, there could be other
>> examples where you even don't define the type of the nodes. Some times when
>> you are modeling linked data portals that extract data from relational
>> databases or excel sheets, you extract values from tables and link
>> properties to them. You could assign those generated nodes an rdf:type, but
>> it should not be mandatory. And this is or will be a very common use case
>> for linked data applications.
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> If there is no rdf:type, which other information is used to determine what
> shape an instance is supposed to have? We need to clarify the starting
> points of constraint evaluation.


Yes, but that's a different issue and that's why we have a requirement
about how to select the nodes that you are validating.

In my opinion, not forcing shapes to be related with classes offers a
better separation of concerns. And of course, we can also maintain a
special case where shapes are associated with classes.



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> Holger
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Saludos, Labra