RE: OWL-Time - questions on Turtle file

On Thursday, February 02, 2017 1:04 PM, Maxime Lefrançois [mailto:maxime.lefrancois@emse.fr] wrote:

> Le 01/02/2017 à 18:03, Francois Daoust a écrit :
> 2. There are no "rdfs:isDefinedBy" statements. More specifically, I was expecting to
> see "rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.w3.org/2006/time>" for each class and property in
> the ontology. Aren't they needed (or recommended) to link back classes and properties
> back to the ontology?
> +0. There is no recommendation of using rdfs:isDefinedBy for each class and
> property. IMHO, knowing that all the ontologies used in the vocab are dereferenceable
> par their URIs, I would not see any need to add that extra triples.
> 
> +1 in favour of rdfs:isDefinedBy axioms.
> 
> My arguments are :
> 
>  - this is in the set of Metadata Recommendations For Linked Open Data Vocabularies,
> promoted by the Linked Open Vocabulary website [1] . See section "Vocabulary
> Elements (Classes and Properties)"
> - This is consistent with the practice applied in most of the vocabularies published on
> the W3C website.
> - This practice will also be applied in the ontologies published by the SSN sub-group.
> There should be some consitency at least within the SDW group.

+1 for rdfs:isDefinedBy from me, too, for the very same reasons (that I couldn't have phrased so well).

Best,

Lars

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