- From: Andrea Splendiani <andrea@pasteur.fr>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 19:49:20 +0200
- To: Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@unimib.it>
- Cc: "Danny Ayers" <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, "Pierre-Antoine Champin" <swlists-040405@champin.net>, semantic-web@w3.org
Il giorno 29/mag/06, alle ore 19:40, Andrea Splendiani ha scritto: > > Yes, what about declaring equivalence of individuals and properties > in RDF ? ^^^^^ Ok, I understeand what above is quite imprecise... Let's say equivalence of resources and properties... A. > > 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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