- From: Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@unimib.it>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:40:36 +0200
- To: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Pierre-Antoine Champin" <swlists-040405@champin.net>, semantic-web@w3.org
Yes, what about declaring equivalence of individuals and properties in RDF ? But anyway, I would like to address this point: don't you think that a way to declare that two URI are the same (independent of wether they refer to resoirces, properties or instances, classes,...) could be useful ? I'm thinking about some "refactoring" of URIs, after which a whole set of URIs may change its namesapce for instance, but not at all the meaning under any circumstances. Ok, this may be a sensible point, but I think it may sense that I can assert that: http://www.myspace.org/release/myontology1.owl#partA is equilvalent to: http://www.myspace.org/releases/ontologies/partsOntology#partA if I'm defining these terms and just refactoring things... This equivalence comes before their menaing hence their RDF/OWL definition, at least i think. I was wondering wether I could state this. best, Andrea Splendiani Of course all your inputs are very useful and allow me to solve the problem! Il giorno 29/mag/06, alle ore 19:29, Danny Ayers ha scritto: > On 5/29/06, Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@unimib.it> wrote: >> >> Thanks, >> >> Is there also a way to assert the equivalence without requiring owl ? >> that is, just for RDF assesrtions ? > > As Jon suggested, stating > > x rdfs:subClassOf y > y rdfs:subClassOf x > > is effectively the same as stating > > x owl:equivalentClass y > > i.e. all members of x are members of y, and vice versa. > > Cheers, > Danny. > > > > > -- > > http://dannyayers.com
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