Re: What are literals?

>[Patrick Stickler, Nokia/Finland, (+358 40) 801 9690, 
>patrick.stickler@nokia.com]
>
>
>>  >This seems to me to mean that the following holds
>>  >
>>  >    rdfs:Literal rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Resource .
>>  >
>>  >which I guess I'm OK with, given the current definition of literals
>>  >(typed or otherwise).
>>  >
>>  >Perhaps that should be explicitly stated in the semantics doc?
>>
>>  Well, all such subClassOfs and rdf:type's which refer to
>>  rdfs:Resource are omitted, since they are all vacuous. Everything has
>>  type resource and (hence) every class is a subclass of resource.
>
>Well, see my comments about the text in the Vocabulary doc about
>rdf:object. It seems to presume that rdfs:Literal and rdfs:Resource
>are disjunct. If they are not, then that text (and possibly other
>text) needs to be adjusted accordingly.

Yes, this text has my mind reeling. My understanding of the 
reification vocabulary was that the rdf:subject and rdf:object of a 
reified triple were the things that the subject and object of the 
original triple denoted. In which case the rdf:object is always a 
literal VALUE rather than the literal itself, so yes, indeed, it can 
be said to be in rdfs:Resource. So the range is rdfs:Resource, and 
this should be altered.

Pat


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Received on Thursday, 12 December 2002 11:11:40 UTC