Re: (Round 2) Proposed Extensions to OWL

• From: Roger L. Costello <costello@mitre.org>
• Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 06:37:21 -0400
• To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
• CC: "Costello,Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>, tpassin@comcast.net, jon@spin.ie
• Message-ID: <3F040761.D21715FC@mitre.org>

Tom Passin wrote:

That is why I prefer to use an abstract Transformation thing that could
be specialized for one to one length comparisons, for example.  Better
not to have to remodel when we hit other cases, within reason of course.

......

My Comments:

Tom, are you saying that you prefer this:

<River rdf:ID="Yangtze">
    <length>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthMeasure>
                    <transform rdf:resource="LengthInMiles"/>
                    <number>3914</number>
                </LengthMeasure>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </length>
</River>

to this:

<River rdf:ID="Yangtze">
    <length>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthInMiles>
                    <number>3914</number>
                </LengthInMiles>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </length>
</River>

I am not clear on why the transform version is more flexible?  You
mentioned an example of expressing an area in two different units (miles
by inches).

Let's take that example.  Here it is using <transform>:

<Farm>
    <length>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthMeasure>
                    <transform rdf:resource="LengthInMiles"/>
                    <number>0.25</number>
                </LengthMeasure>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </length>
    <width>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthMeasure>
                    <transform rdf:resource="LengthInInches"/>
                    <number>2500</number>
                </LengthMeasure>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </width>
</Farm>

Here it is using the other approach:

<Farm>
    <length>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthInMiles>
                    <number>0.25</number>
                </LengthMeasure>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </length>
    <width>
        <Length>
            <measurement>
                <LengthInInches>
                    <number>2500</number>
                </LengthMeasure>
            </measurement>
        </Length>
    </width>
</Farm>

I don't understand how the <transform> version is more flexible.  Would
you elaborate please?  /Roger

Received on Thursday, 3 July 2003 06:39:10 UTC