- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:12:52 -0500
- To: <conrad.bock@nist.gov>
- Cc: "'Web Ontology Language \(\(OWL\)\) Working Group WG'" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Hi Conrad, Is this relevant: http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/tracker/issues/22 -Alan On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Conrad Bock wrote: > > OWLers, > > Is it possible in OWL 1.1 to equate a property to another as it is > restricted on a subclass of the domain? For example: > > Animals eat Animals > > Dolphins eat Fish (restriction of eat property on Dolphin) > > Dolphins dolphin-eat Fish (dolphin-eat a subproperty of eat, with > domain Dolphin, which has the same > interpretation as eat when the > domain is > restricted to dolphins). > > I think this is needed when introducing a role chains in the subclass. > For example, a role chain that includes eat, but only applies to > dolphins, would need to use dolphin-eat. Maybe there's another way to > do that, can't think of any. > > Conrad > > >
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