Re: [OEP] Draft of a note on n-ary relations

>> I agree that this would be useful and indeed there is nothing 
>> OWL-specific here -- the problem is just the same in RDF (or in any 
>> language that doesn't have n-ary relations). And the WG is concerned 
>> with SW in general and not just OWL after all.
>> In terms of simplicity though, I would a bit concerned about having 
>> too much branching: here is pattern 1, and here it is in OWl, and 
>> here is the same thing in RDF, but it will look slightly differently 
>> (using domain and ranges, etc.) Any idea on how to structure this so 
>> that readers interested in one language or the other can get what 
>> they need without filtering through too much extraneous (for them) 
>> information?
>> Basically, back to the issue of what a good template for this would 
>> be.
>
> I think that it would be OK to leave the current document structure as 
> is, and have a further appendix with the RDF version, probably only in 
> RDF/XML, since the target reader for the appendix will be happiest 
> with that. In the intro, that structure could be explained:
>
> e.g.
> "Readers interested in expressing n-ary relationships with RDFS only,
> (not using OWL), should see the examples in Appendix X; these 
> correpond to the design patterns explained earlier (with OWL 
> examples)."

Makes sense -- will try to do this for the next draft.  I guess we can 
use the same structure for the TopicMaps version that Bernard 
suggested.

Natasha

Received on Monday, 10 May 2004 20:01:54 UTC