Re: Punning object and data properties

Thanks Evren. I'd started wiki page for collecting thoughts around  
property punning and included your use case there:
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/PropertyPunning
-Alan


On Dec 5, 2007, at 12:02 AM, Evren Sirin wrote:

>
> Some time ago there was a discussion regarding the need (or lack  
> there of) punning the same URI for both as an object and a data  
> property. Another use case for this is representing arbitrary lists  
> in the instance data. The most straight-forward way to represent a  
> list would be to use the rdf:List vocabulary where rdf:first can be  
> used both for object and literal values. OWL-DL disallows the use  
> of rdf:List vocabulary (outside built-in class constructors) and  
> does not have punning so the common approach is to recreate the  
> same terms under a different namespace and restrict the lists to  
> lists of objects. OWL-S shadow list vocabulary [1] is one example  
> and there are other proposals for lists with more semantics [2].  
> Ability to pun object  and data properties would generalize this  
> approach to lists of literals. In addition, if punning built-in  
> vocabulary (or at least rdf:List vocabuary) is allowed it would not  
> be necessary to reinvent a new namespace.
>
> Regards,
> Evren
>
> [1] http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.1/generic/ObjectList.owl
> [2] Nick Drummond, Alan Rector, Robert Stevens, Georgina Moulton,  
> Matthew Horridge, Hai H. Wang, Julian Seidenberg. Putting OWL in  
> Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL. OWLED 2006.
> http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/acceptedLong/submission_12.pdf
>

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