- From: Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@unimib.it>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:00:51 +0200
- To: Pierre-Antoine Champin <swlists-040405@champin.net>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Thanks, Is there also a way to assert the equivalence without requiring owl ? that is, just for RDF assesrtions ? best, Andrea Splendiani Il giorno 29/mag/06, alle ore 18:17, Pierre-Antoine Champin ha scritto: > Andrea Splendiani a écrit : >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> Is there a way to assert that two URIs are equivalent ? >> >> In owl, sameAs allows to specify the equivalence of two >> individuals, but >> when applied to classes this would make the ontology OWL-full. >> >> In any case I would like to assert that two URIs, no matter their >> meaning, are the same. >> Let's say I'm defining these URIs, and for "legacy" reason I have two >> different "spellings". How should I deal with this situation ? > > if the URIs denote individual, use owl:sameAs > if the URIs denote classes, use owl:equivalentClass > if the URIs denote properties, use owl:equivalentProperty > > if you are not sure about what they denote (either because one of them > denotes sometimes an individual and sometimes a class, or because both > do not denote the same kind of thing), then you are *already* in > OWL-Full... > > In OWL-DL (and Lite), the sets of classes, individuals and properties > are disjoint, so there should be no ambiguity. > > pa > >> >> best, >> Andrea Splendiani >> > >
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