- From: Taylor Cowan <taylor_cowan@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:14:57 -0800 (PST)
- To: semantic-web@w3.org
In looking at existing applications/ontologies on the
web I'm finding that care is not being taken to be
specific. This comes from the geonames ontology,
which I believe is one of the better rdf sources on
the net...
<owl:DatatypeProperty rdf:about="#population">
<rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Feature"/>
<rdfs:label xml:lang="en">population</rdfs:label>
</owl:DatatypeProperty>
As a computer I know that population is a property of
Feature, that's it. I don't know how many, what type,
etc.
Is it common to just assume things as literals in the
absence of a range? In this case you'd at least
expect population to be given a numeric range type.
Taylor
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