Re: "Microsoft Access" for RDF?

Hello Pat,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:45:12AM -0600, Pat Hayes wrote:
> > Another simpler example would be <property> rdfs:range foaf:Person. 
> > http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_Person says that "Something is a Person if it
> > is a person". How can an RDF container of several persons be a person?
> 
> According the US Supreme Court a corporation is a person, so I would guess that a mere container would have no trouble geting past the censors.

I am seriously interested in your position on the topic.

Do you say that anything goes as long as it stays satisfiable?

Should I assume that some property applying to some container/collection also 
applies to its members (which seems to be the implicit assumption here)?
Should I modify my SPARQL queries accordingly?

Let me play the censor a bit more :-)

Let's admit that Dan also means legal person with person. But not every
group of individuals acting together is a legal person. The example here was
a group of people co-authoring a paper. Also, the notion that foaf:Group is a 
subclass of foaf:Person does not make any sense to me. Why then introduce 
foaf:Group at all?

Regards,

Michael Brunnbauer

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