- From: Lee Jonas <ljonas@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:47:46 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, <indtec@eircom.net>
"Stuart Naylor" <indtec@eircom.net> wrote: >I could of sworn you just explained how to provide relationships between RDF >metadata ontologies. Yes, indeed. This is one of a couple of practical uses that I know of for reification. This is precisely what OMG are doing with their Meta Object Facility [1] technology - it provides a way of dynamically mapping between different 'schemas' (or interface definitions) by describing those schemas at yet more levels of abstraction above. I can quite remember, but I think they actually find it useful in some cases to go 4 or 5 levels of abstraction above the actual data - it becomes very confusing, they lost me beyond the first 3! [1] http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/meta.htm regards Lee
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