Re: (Round 2) Proposed Extensions to OWL

Roger,

just a quick observation:

Roger L. Costello wrote:
> 2. There is a relationship between the two anonymous
> resources:
> 
>        <rdf:Description>
>            <rdf:value>1.0</rdf:value>
>            <units>inch</units>
>        </rdf:Description>
> 
>        <rdf:Description>
>            <rdf:value>2.54</rdf:value>
>            <units>centimeter</units>
>        </rdf:Description>
> 
> Namely, they represent the same resource.  They are both providing
> information about the same resource.
> 
> Do you agree that they represent the same resource?

No, not in the sense that they are owl:sameIndividualAs, for a simple 
reason. If they were the same resource, it would be true that

     _:x  rdf:value  "1.0"
     _:x  my:units   "inch"
     _:x  rdf:value  "2.54"
     _:x  my:units   "centimeter"

and therefore,

     _:x  rdf:value  "1.0"
     _:x  my:units   "centimeter"

That's obviously not what you want :-)

- Benja

Received on Thursday, 26 June 2003 06:50:36 UTC