Re: shapes-ISSUE-101 (templates as classes): use of rdfs:subClassOf for template inheritance

On further examination of templates I no longer stand by my statements below.

peter

On 10/15/2015 09:04 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> 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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