- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 10:35:17 -0500
- To: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
Far as I can see, one could simply delete every range-string triple. Nothing would break in the RDFS by doing this, and AFIKS nothing is gained from having these range assertions. Pat On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: > Sure does rock. > As you know, I never venture into ontology definition, to avoid displaying my ignorance, but now and then... :-) > Suggestion: > > The RDFS will (I think!) perpetuate the classic problem (being a natural translation), in that there are lots of range strings. > For example: > schema:currenciesAccepted a rdf:Property; > rdfs:label "Currencies Accepted"@en; > rdfs:comment "The currency accepted (in ISO 4217 currency format)."@en; > rdfs:domain schema:LocalBusiness; > rdfs:range xsd:string; > rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://schema.org/currenciesAccepted>; > . > and > schema:headline a rdf:Property; > rdfs:label "Headline"@en; > rdfs:comment "Headline of the article"@en; > rdfs:domain schema:CreativeWork; > rdfs:range xsd:string; > rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://schema.org/headline>; > . > And even productID > > I count 53 "rdfs:range xsd:string" and 8 "rdfs:range [ owl:unionOf (xsd:decimal xsd:string) ]" of this kind. > > As I say, I think that means that to conform, I can't have a Resource as Range. > So it is institutionalising a Bad Thing, simply because schema.org says that, for example, "productID" is "text". > > Of course, people who use http://schema.rdfs.org/ probably will use Resources for places, currencies, etc, (as they should) so maybe the RDFS needs to reflect this? > > Won't try and suggest... > > Best > Hugh > > On 3 Jun 2011, at 22:06, Michael Hausenblas wrote: > >> >> http://schema.rdfs.org >> >> ... is now available - we're sorry for the delay ;) >> >> Cheers, >> Michael >> -- >> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow >> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre >> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute >> NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway >> Ireland, Europe >> Tel. +353 91 495730 >> http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ >> http://sw-app.org/about.html >> >> > > -- > Hugh Glaser, > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia > School of Electronics and Computer Science, > University of Southampton, > Southampton SO17 1BJ > Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 > Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652 > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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