- From: Damian Steer <damian.steer@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:52:01 +0000
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- CC: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me the difference between rdfs:Resource and owl:Thing, > both from a formal semantics point of view and a practical point of > view? Any guidelines as to when I should use one or the other? > > Cheers, > Richard > IIRC it depends. In OWL Full they're identical, in DL owl:Thing is the class of individuals, so no literals, no classes, no properties (?). I suppose that in practice you use rdfs:Resource to say 'everything', and owl:Thing to say 'individuals', but it may be that they're one and the same. Damian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFUI+BAyLCB+mTtykRAn4GAKDhB8py9Yv2gjxWwDWGfohc7YzdMACg2fiw D/2y4VaATvaLN4+ktt7zIHY= =6z3O -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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