- From: Yoshio FUKUSHIGE <fuku@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:21:15 +0900
- To: "Natasha Noy" <noy@smi.stanford.edu>
- Cc: <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Hello Natasha and people in public-swbp-wg, My name is Yoshio Fukushige, a w3c fellow from Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), and this is, I think, my third post to this mailing list. I offer congratulations to the SWBPDWG on its publication of "Defining N-ary Relations on the Semantic Web: Use With Individuals" as a working draft. Though I'm not a member of the WG, I've been interested in the representation of the Nary relations and would like to present another approach to it. My approach is, in short, to generalize the "pattern 2" approach in the WD to all Nary relations, which I'd like to call the Predicate-Center approach. While being almost a graffiti, my basic idea can be found in http://www.w3.org/2004/08/12-Yoshio/onNaryRelations.html, with corresponding structures for the examplaes in the WD and some discussion on representing causal constructions, reification and uncertainty. While sufficient verbal explanation is not supplied there(to my regrets), you can see the outline from examples in N3 and graphs. I would be very happy if anyone here takes a look at it and give me comments, and I hope this can inspire a discussion and finaly contribute a single bit to the next version of the WD. **Note this is a personal proposal from Yoshio Fukushige and NOT ENDORSED by any fraction of the W3C.** Best regards, Yoshio Fukushige fuku@w3.org
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