- From: Boris Motik <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:37:27 -0000
- To: "'Alan Ruttenberg'" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "'W3C OWL Working Group'" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Hello, This declaration has no special meaning: owl:NamedIndividual is not assigned any special meaning in the vocabulary of OWL 2. The vocabulary element is used only to denote that 8:x is declared. Note that writing *:x rdf:type olw:Thing would be ambiguous. You get the same triple by serializing this axiom: ClassAssertion( owl:Thing *:x ) To distinguish the two, we need a new vocabulary element to tag declarations of named individuals. Regards, Boris > -----Original Message----- > From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alan Ruttenberg > Sent: 11 November 2008 08:16 > To: W3C OWL Working Group > Subject: What is the rationale for "*:x rdf:type owl:NamedIndividual" ? > > > Why is this needed? > > BTW, Does this mean that owl:NamedIndividual is a subclass of owl:Thing? > > -Alan
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