Re: relation <--> property

Hi Paolo,
You are right! I will try not to conflate the two terms in future mails.

> Also, until a week ago we used the term "property" for what in the doc is
now an "attribute"
I believe attribute usually translates to a datatype property :)

Thanks.

Best,
Satya

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>  I noticed that the two terms in the subject are beginning to be used
> interchangeably. This is probably because of Satya's OWL mindset :-), which
> is just fine but may I ask to try and use terms within their scope.
> I am not just being pedantic, but remember we struggled with "resource"
> because of its meaning in the RDF data model.  Now "property" is being used
> as understood in the same SWeb framework.
> So, t(x,y,...) still denotes a n-ary relation in the conceptual model.
>
> (Also, until a week ago we used the term "property" for what in the doc is
> now an "attribute")
>
> Thanks! -Paolo
>
> ps and if you, like me, have a hunch that a Datalog syntax is appropriate
> for the language, then you know that t(X,Y) may later become a "term" :-)
>
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