- From: wwmm <wwmm@seu.edu.cn>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:50:54 +0800
- To: "Titi Roman" <dumitru.roman@deri.ie>, <public-webont-comments@w3.org>
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From: "Titi Roman" <dumitru.roman@deri.ie>
To: <public-webont-comments@w3.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 1:35 AM
Subject: question about owl:import
>
> Hi,
> I have some questions regarding "owl:import":
> If one ontology imports another ontology, how are conflicts handled,
> e.g., name conflicts (name already used),
XML Namespace can differentiate them. e.g. myns:name, yourns:name
> semantic conflicts (a similar concept that already exists is imported)? How are the imported concepts
> and relationships related to the existing concepts and relationships? If
> one ontology imports more than one ontology, how are conflicts handled
> in this case?
if two concept is equal, e.g. myns:cost, yourns:price
you can statement that {myns:cost owl:equivalentProperty yourns:price}
similarly, you could use owl:equivalentClass, owl:sameAs, rdfs:subClassOf, rdfs:subPropertyOf.
> If you consider that these things are only related to OWL tools, are
> there any tools that solve the questions above?
> Thanks,
> Titi Roman
>
>
>
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