- From: Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:28:01 -0500
- To: "Hans Teijgeler" <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>
- Cc: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>, "Paap, Onno" <onno.paap@gmail.com>
Hi Hans, On 8/23/06, Hans Teijgeler <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl> wrote: > Your conclusions are on the dot, i.e. we work a lot with metaclasses and > even metametaclasses (that ClassOfInanimatePhysicalObject is an instance > again of ClassOfClassOfIndividual). The entire fully normalized datamodel of > 201 entity data types can be found on [1] and [2]. Together with a > vocabulary with some 15,000 classes we can express most of what we need to > represent the lifetime data of a refinery, offshore platform, or chemical > plant (or of any other facility for that matter, provided that there is a > specialized vocabulary present). > > I understand from you that what we do is not incorrect, but unusual, and > normal RDF/OWL-based tools (if they exist?) will not crash on it. To my knowledge you should be OK. However, I can't comment on the assumptions that might be made by any one system, so your mileage may vary. Good luck. Paul
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