Re: Linked Data Glossary is published!

On 28 June 2013 18:01, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com> wrote:

> Hi Melvin,
> Thanks. May I ask you to provide definitions for each of the proposed
> terms please?  TIA.  I believe we'll be able to update assuming the GLD WG
> extension is approved.
>

The most normative definitions I found are:

http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#FunctionalProperty-def

4.3.1 owl:FunctionalProperty

A functional property is a property that can have only one (unique) value y
for each instance x, i.e. there cannot be two distinct values y1 and y2
such that the pairs (x,y1) and (x,y2) are both instances of this property.
Both object properties and datatype properties can be declared as
"functional". For this purpose, OWL defines the built-in class
owl:FunctionalProperty as a special subclass of the RDF class rdf:Property.

4.3.2 owl:InverseFunctionalProperty

If a property is declared to be inverse-functional, then the object of a
property statement uniquely determines the subject (some individual). More
formally, if we state that P is an owl:InverseFunctionalProperty, then this
asserts that a value y can only be the value of P for a single instance x,
i.e. there cannot be two distinct instances x1 and x2 such that both pairs
(x1,y) and (x2,y) are instances of P.

Although as someone has pointed out, this might be a little too OWL specific


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> Cheers,
>
> Bernadette
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> On Jun 27, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On 27 June 2013 17:08, Bernadette Hyland <bhyland@3roundstones.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>> On behalf of the editors, I'm pleased to announce the publication of the
>> peer-reviewed *Linked Data Glossary* published as a W3C Working Group
>> Note effective 27-June-2013.[1]
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>> We hope this document serves as a useful glossary containing terms
>> defined and used to describe Linked Data, and its associated vocabularies
>> and best practices for publishing structured data on the Web.
>>
>> The LD Glossary is intended to help foster constructive discussions
>> between the Web 2.0 and 3.0 developer communities, encouraging all of us
>> appreciate the application of different technologies for different use
>> cases.  We hope the glossary serves as a useful starting point in your
>> discussions about data sharing on the Web.
>>
>> Finally, the editors are grateful to David Wood for contributing the
>> initial glossary terms from Linking Government Data<http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/book/978-1-4614-1766-8>,
>> (Springer 2011). The editors wish to also thank members of the Government
>> Linked Data Working Group <http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/> with special
>> thanks to the reviewers and contributors: Thomas Baker, Hadley Beeman,
>> Richard Cyganiak, Michael Hausenblas, Sandro Hawke, Benedikt Kaempgen,
>> James McKinney, Marios Meimaris, Jindrich Mynarz and Dave Reynolds who
>> diligently iterated the W3C Linked Data Glossary in order to create a
>> foundation of terms upon which to discuss and better describe the Web of
>> Data.  If there is anyone that the editors inadvertently overlooked in this
>> list, please accept our apologies.
>>
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> Looks awesome, well done!  I was actually asked for something like this
> already this month.
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> Would there be any possibility to add two more, which come up a bit:
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> FP -- Functional Property
> IFP -- Inverse Functional Property
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>> Thank you one & all!
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>> Sincerely,
>> Bernadette Hyland<http://3roundstones.com/about-us/leadership-team/bernadette-hyland/>,
>> 3 Round Stones <http://3roundstones.com/> Ghislain Atemezing<http://www.eurecom.fr/%7Eatemezin>,
>> EURECOM <http://www.eurecom.fr/> Michael Pendleton, US Environmental
>> Protection Agency <http://www.epa.gov/> Biplav Srivastava, IBM<http://www.ibm.com/in/research/>
>>
>> W3C Government Linked Data Working Group
>> Charter: http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/
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