Re: ISSUE-54: Do we need (descriptions of) property functions in SD? Is this in scope for us?

On 16 Feb 2010, at 17:23, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:

> On 2/16/2010 11:52 AM, Paul Gearon wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:24 AM, SPARQL Working Group Issue Tracker
>> <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ISSUE-54: Do we need (descriptions of) property functions in SD?  
>>> Is this in scope for us?
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/track/issues/54
>>
>> I believe that we want this.
>>
>> The scope of what property functions are capable of is essentially
>> unrestricted, so I don't think it's possible to really describe what
>> these functions do. However, it should be possible to obtain a list  
>> of
>> properties that fall into this category. As a user I would find that
>> useful in two ways:
>>
>> 1. I'd know that using this property in a query, or getting it back  
>> in
>> a result involves entailed data, and not just extensional data.
>> 2. If I happen to recognize a property from the list, I will know  
>> that
>> a particular feature will be available to me.
>
> I'd be surprised if anyone disagrees that this is useful.
>
> However, I have no idea how we would specify it in the service  
> description document. How would we define a property/class that  
> describes something that is not itself defined anywhere? The only  
> way I see to do it is to define what a property function is, and  
> that's beyond our scope.

Right, this is my feeling too.

- Steve

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