Re: Relations in RDF

It's not so different from Michel and Rob's approach - see Michel's email on this thread.

It's also (deliberately) somewhat limited in power - for example, you can't selectively expand relations based on presence/absence of other triples. It would be nice to have a general purpose macro language as a W3C standard, from which these simpler approaches could be defined.

On May 4, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> Chris, that's beautiful!!  Well done!
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> On Wed, 04 May 2011 14:27:30 -0700, Chris Mungall <cjmungall@lbl.gov> wrote:
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>> A number of ontologies are starting to use "shortcut" relations. These are expanded to more complex class expressions prior to OWL reasoning:
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>> http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5292/version/1
>> http://berkeleybop.org/~cjm/obo2owl/obo-syntax.html#7
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> Dr. Mark Wilkinson
> Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
> PI Bioinformatics, Institute for Heart and Lung Health
> St. Paul's Hospital/UBC
> Vancouver, BC, Canada

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