- From: Natasha Noy <noy@SMI.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:40:52 -0700
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Cc: "Deborah L. McGuinness" <dlm@ksl.Stanford.EDU>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
I agree with Deborah and Evan that minimizing the number of triples is not something we should care about when discussing good modeling practices. Besides, we are not really talking changes in orders of magnitude here. >> I think we want to have modeling solutions that we believe represent >> good modeling choices that capture the representation and do not >> introduce additional confusion or complication. > > I agree, but do not understand why the proposed alternative (having > classes in the hierarchy be instances of some metaclass) is any more > confusing or complicated than any of the other solutions. If there are > any practical problems with this approach, please let me know, as I am > not very familiar with the theory. There is nothing wrong with having classes in the hierarchy be instances of some metaclasses (in fact, i would argue very strongly that there are many cases where you would want just that). However, in your particular example, you want to represent a specific lion in the San Diego Zoo as a class, and that's a problem. A class of what? What are instances of this class? etc. Natasha
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