Re: rdfs:domain for OO class properties

Hi

> Assuming that the following interpretation of the property domain is
> correct, what should be the right procedure (formally!?) to describe in
> RDF a property which can be applied to several distinct classes?
>
> The context is: The RDF properties domain (rdfs:domain) are globally
> defined and the conjunction of domains, i.e. more than one statement for a
> property domain, leads to the class domain that is of both, (in the
> case of 2 domain statements) types.
>
> Well, one solution is to create different properties, i.e. with different
> names, to describe the same behavior (hum, don't like that). Another one
> is to declare the domain as a collection of alternate classes, i.e. all
> the members of such collection (not sure about this one). But, necessarily
> this issue has arise many times before, so it must have a proper solution.

Another one (the rignt one I think) is to use OWL that is going to be born
just to let do things like this.

Regards

Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2003 04:54:05 UTC