Another approach to Nary relations

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

Received on Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:21:19 UTC