Re: Relationship between Shapes graph and owl:Ontology

Hello

Le jeu. 18 févr. 2021 à 23:59, Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com> a
écrit :

> The main motivation for saying it is "often" an owl:Ontology is that shape
> graphs may use owl:imports to follow prefix declarations, and the
> rdfs:domain/range of owl:imports is owl:Ontology.
>
OK, thanks ! I missed that point about owl:imports domain/range.


> Also, I believe many people in practice already assign rdf:type
> owl:Ontology to the URI resource of the graph itself, for example to attach
> comments and provenance information.
>
> Using owl:Ontology as an rdf:type does not imply that the graph must or
> should declare OWL classes or properties. In fact many examples that I have
> seen simply use owl:Ontology in conjunction with RDFS or even data graphs.
>
OK thanks - it just surprised me a bit at the beginning, and I was not
aware of this practice.

> What problems do you see?
>
None in particular; I just wanted to check that this was a practice I could
safely rely on for tools development.

Thank you for the clarification
Thomas


> Holger
>
>
> On 2021-02-18 11:38 pm, Thomas Francart wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Is a Shape Graph always an owl:Ontology ? (no, from the spec)
> Why is it "often" (to quote Holger's last email here) declared as an
> owl:Ontology ?
> What are the advantages of stating it is of type owl:Ontology, if the
> graph does not declare any new classes or properties or OWL axioms, but
> only Shapes constraints ? and isn't this declaration misleading ?
> Is this declaration an agreed best practice ?
>
> Thanks !
> Thomas
>
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