- From: Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:57:09 -0700
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Everyone, I'm creating an ontology in which it is useful to identify "any resource". That is, let's say that I want to specify to which resource a particular <eg:Rule> applies. I can specify (let me try my hand at N3 here); [] a eg:Rule; eg:appliesTo <urn:uuid:92f01109-e08e-4ac2-b0d4-b13f65ba7595> That means that the rules applies to some identified resource. But is there any convention for identifying "any resource"? I see several options: * If I assume that the resources are people with emails, I could use <mailto:*.*>. But that doesn't seem general enough---it's almost too much of a hack. * Maybe there's a wildcard URI out there---that is, perhaps <urn:uuid:1234...> is universally agreed upon as the wildcard resource. But I'm not holding my breath that this exists. * Maybe I could create my own wildcard URI: <eg:wildcard>. But that seems too specific to my ontology. * What about a class of all resources? If I were to use <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource>, that doesn't seem to be what I'm wanting to say semantically---it would say that the rule applies to the class of resources, not to every instance of that class. * I could create a type <eg:AnyResource> and this could be the value of the eg:appliesTo property, but this seems to have the same problem as using the type <rdfs:Resource>. Any suggestions? There are almost limitless ways I can go with this, but is there some convention? Garret
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