- From: Paul Gearon <gearon@ieee.org>
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 16:55:42 -0600
- To: Hans Teijgeler <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>
- Cc: SW-forum <semantic-web@w3.org>
Received on Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:55:41 UTC
On Nov 4, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Hans Teijgeler wrote: > Folks, > > rdf:Property is a subClassOf rdfs:Resource, so syntactically a > property could be the rdf:object of a triple. > > My question is, whether or not there is something against doing > that from a semantics/reasoning point of view. > > Can anybody shed some light on this? There's certainly no rule against it. Reification requires it. So does rdfs:subPropertyOf. As for semantics... you can get away with a lot in RDF. But if you want to keep things as valid OWL-Lite or OWL-DL then you have to be more careful, as properties are treated a little differently to other resources. Properties only start getting back the "privileges" of other types of resources (like classes) when you get up to OWL-Full. Paul
Received on Saturday, 4 November 2006 22:55:41 UTC