- From: Cédric Thiébault <cedric.thiebault@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:22:09 -0400
- To: public-owl-dev@w3.org
- Message-ID: <9144d19b0905130922kadfde65u6bf7e37360e39683@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, I read in several documentation about RDF/OWL that there is no big difference between classes and individuals. Most of the ontologies published on the internet use only classes. But when I try to use a one to many relationship, it seems to work only with individuals. Here is a very simple example: a pizza has at least one topping and a topping is for exactly one pizza. :Pizza rdf:type owl:Class :Topping rdf:type owl:Class :hasTopping rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty owl:inverseOf :isToppingOf rdfs:domain :Pizza rdfs:range :Topping :isToppingOf rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty owl:inverseOf :hasTopping rdfs:domain :Topping rdfs:range :Pizza :Pizza :hasTopping min 1 :Topping :Topping :isToppingOf exactly 1 :Pizza When I create an individual :Pizza_mozzarella and add a property :hasTopping on :Mozzarella individual, I can work with the inverse property on the topping and I see that :Mozzarella :isToppingOf :Pizza_mozzarella. It works great with individual. But when I try to do the same test with classes: :Pizza_mozzarella_class :hasTopping some :Mozzarella_class But I cannot use the inverse property: :Mozzarella_class does not know anything about :Pizza_mozzarella_class. Is this normal ? Are inverse properties usable only on individuals ? Thanks for your help :-) Cedric
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