- From: Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:30:16 -0500
- To: Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org, dmozzherin@gmail.com
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Peter DeVries <pete.devries@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi LOD'ers, >[...] > I was thinking that the species itself should be a class so that individuals > of that species would be instances of that class. > Probably another skos:Concept class. > So an individual species concept class like that for the Cougar would be an > instance of a skos:Concept (SpeciesConcept) class and also be a skos:Concept > class (Cougar) of it's own. > Individual animals would be instances of the skos:Concept class (Cougar). >[...] Umm, if every species concept is a class, about how many classes, in your estimate, would there be in a comprehensive ontology? --Bob -- Robert A. Morris Professor of Computer Science (nominally retired) UMASS-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125-3390 Associate, Harvard University Herbaria email: ram@cs.umb.edu web: http://bdei.cs.umb.edu/ web: http://etaxonomy.org/FilteredPush http://www.cs.umb.edu/~ram phone (+1)617 287 6466
Received on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 02:30:49 UTC