- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:45:10 +0100
- To: Thomas Loertsch <loertsch.thomas@guj.de>
- Cc: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Bernhard Schandl <bernhard.schandl@univie.ac.at>, Knud Hinnerk Möller <knud.moeller@deri.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Thomas Loertsch wrote: > On 15.10.08 11:57, "Hugh Glaser" <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > >> [Hit the wrong key, please ignore previous email] >> Not addressing performance, but more the advice question, and linkage and >> re-use: >> >> Yes, rdfs:subClassOf and rdfs:subPropertyOf seem more sensible than >> owl:equivalentClass for many things, and certainly for rdfs:label sorts of >> things. >> If you can use owl:equivalentClass, why did you invent a new concept and not >> use rdfs:label in the first place? > > Then why was owl:equivalentClass added to the standard? ;-) Because it felt verbose and ugly writing c1 rdfs:subClassOf c2 . c2 rdfs:subClassOf c1 . I leave it to the read to imagine the prettiest possible serialization of this in RDF/XML. RDFa might fare slightly better... cheers, Dan ps. I get the impression folk may have been using equivalentClass with properties (like rdfs:label); that shouldn't work at all. -- http://danbri.org/
Received on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 10:45:50 UTC