Re: Can't RDF describe collection resources?

Also, this can be quite adequately represented using OWL property chains.

Rinke
On Mar 1, 2012 8:13 AM, "Michael Hausenblas" <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
wrote:

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> On 1 Mar 2012, at 07:28, Ruben Verborgh wrote:
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>  Dear Semantic Web enthousiasts,
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>> Suppose we have a Web application for blogging:
>> - /posts/35 is a blog post
>> - /posts/35/comments are the comments to that post
>> - /posts/35/comments/3 is a specific comment to this post
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>> In RDF, it is straightforward to make the relation between the blog post
>> and a specific comment:
>>  </posts/35> :hasComment </posts/35/comments/3>.
>> It is also easy to describe the relation between a specific comment and
>> all comments:
>>  </posts/35/comments/4> :memberOf </posts/35/comments>.
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>> However, how do we indicate the relationship between the blog post and
>> *all* comments that belong to it?
>> I.e., what is the relationship between </posts/35> and
>> </posts/35/comments> ?
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>> One could make a new predicate for that of course:
>>  </posts/35/> :hasComments </posts/35/comments>.
>> But then, we still have to explain the relation between :hasComments and
>> :hasComment; and we’d have to do that for every such plural predicate.
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>> This seems to be a fundamental problem.
>> Clearly, the resource “comments on blog post 35” exists, but there
>> doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way to describe it in RDF.
>> RDF lists will not be sufficient: they could indeed explain the relation
>> between a specific comment and all comments, but not the relation between
>> all comments and the blog post.
>> Also note that the indirect relation “_:x :hasComment _:y. _:y :memberOf
>> _:z” is not sufficient: a blog post can have no comments, but even then it
>> still has an (empty) comments resource.
>>
>> Have you encountered this issue and how do you solve it?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> --
>> Ruben Verborgh
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>> PhD Student at Multimedia Lab – IBBT / ELIS, Ghent University, Belgium
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