Characterizing intersectionOf relationships? from Roger L. Costello on 2003-04-22 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from April 2003)

From: Roger L. Costello <costello@mitre.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:07:32 -0400
To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
CC: "Costello,Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
Message-ID: <3EA53084.FCB5A5A1@mitre.org>

Hi Folks,

Consider this definition of SLR:

<owl:Class rdf:ID="SLR">
     <owl:intersectionOf rdf:parseType="Collection">
          <owl:Class rdf:about="#Camera"/>
          <owl:Restriction>
                <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="#viewFinder"/>
                <owl:hasValue rdf:resource="#ThroughTheLens"/>
          </owl:Restriction>
     </owl:intersectionOf>
</owl:Class>

How would you characterize the relationship between SLR and Camera, e.g,

   "SLR is a Camera"
or
   "SLR is a subclass of Camera"

or something else?  

Stated another way, if an application "consults" the Camera Ontology:

   "What's the relationship between SLR and Camera?"

What would you expect as the reply?  /Roger

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