Re: How can I express containment/composition?

If you're strictly talking about geography there's also parentFeature in 
the Geonames ontology (but this is already populated with relationships 
like the ones you mentioned - worth checking if there's already coverage 
if you haven't).

Barry


On 21/02/13 12:47, Frans Knibbe | Geodan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to express a composition relationship. Something like:
> A Country consist of Provinces
> A Province consists of Municipalities
>
> I thought this should be straightforward because this is a common and 
> logical kind of relationship, but I could not find a vocabulary which 
> allows be to make this kind of statement. Perhaps I am bad at 
> searching, or maybe I did not use the right words.
>
> I did find this document: 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/SimplePartWhole/ ("Simple 
> part-whole relations in OWL Ontologies"). It explains that OWL has no 
> direct support for this kind of relationship and it goes on to give 
> examples on how one can create ontologies that do support the 
> relationship in one way or the other.
>
> Is there a ready to use ontology/vocabulary out there that can help me 
> express containment/composition?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Frans
>
>

Received on Thursday, 21 February 2013 13:08:04 UTC