- From: Ashley Yakeley <ashley@semantic.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:56:34 -0700
- To: "RDF Interest Group" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
At 2002-09-04 06:51, by way of "Ralph R. Swick" <swick@w3.org> wrote:
>Suppose you are asking an ontology that holds information on multinational
>companies with a hierarchical relation between them:
>
>(A class company)
>(B class company)
>(C class company)
>(B purchasedBy A)
>(C purchasedBy B)
>
>in this model someone that works for C works for A too. How do you manage
>this?. In general, how do you manage the problem of inheritance, which is
>recursive with the proposed schema ?
It might be interesting to declare certain properties "heritable" via
certain other properties. For instance,
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type">
<inheritsVia
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#subClassOf"/>
</rdf:Description>
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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
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Received on Wednesday, 4 September 2002 17:56:37 UTC