Re: Design Issue (4) - Concepts as language-embedded, language in depe ndent, or both? from Dave Reynolds on 2003-11-06 (public-esw-thes@w3.org from November 2003)

From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:25:54 +0000
To: "Miles, AJ (Alistair) " <A.J.Miles@rl.ac.uk>
Cc: "'NJ Rogers, Learning and Research Technology'" <Nikki.Rogers@bristol.ac.uk>, "'public-esw-thes@w3.org'" <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3FAA59F2.3020403@hplb.hpl.hp.com>

Miles, AJ (Alistair) wrote:

> This does have consequences for constraining the data model.  It means a
> node typed as a 'soks:Concept' must then be allowed to have multiple
> 'soks:descriptor' properties, one for each language.  Is it then possible in
> OWL to express the constraint that a concept may have one and only one
> 'soks:descriptor' property for each language?  

Only if you represent content-in-a-specific-language as a class, which 
would mean having a different class and different cardinality constraint 
for every language. Which probably wouldn't be workable.

But in any case you need to add the qualifier "in any given conceptual 
scheme". That definitely makes expressing the cardinality constraint in OWL 
unworkable.

Dave

Received on Thursday, 6 November 2003 09:26:10 UTC