- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 09:04:46 -0700
- To: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>, public-data-shapes-wg@w3.org
On 10/08/2015 01:14 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote: > On 10/8/15 11:24 PM, RDF Data Shapes Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> shapes-ISSUE-101 (templates as classes): use of rdfs:subClassOf for template >> inheritance >> >> http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/track/issues/101 >> >> Raised by: Peter Patel-Schneider >> On product: >> >> rdfs:subClassOf is the subclass relationship between RDFS classes. >> >> SHACL uses rdfs:subClassOf for template inheritance. This implies that >> SHACL templates are RDFS classes, which is not correct. > > Why is this not correct? > > Holger >From RDF Schema 1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ Resources may be divided into groups called classes. The members of a class are known as instances of the class. Classes are themselves resources. They are often identified by IRIs and may be described using RDF properties. The rdf:type property may be used to state that a resource is an instance of a class. This does not describe a template. peter
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