- From: Raphael Volz <volz@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:30:08 +0200
- To: "Www-Rdf-Interest@W3. Org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
Hi - the dublin core elements enjoy a wide popularity as annotation properties. Since the RDF syntax for Dublin Core is based on a RDF Schema, all ontologies making use of that vocabulary are per definition OWL Full. I have edited the original definitions and created some OWL (Lite/DL, Full) ontologies that allow to use Dublin Core as annotation properties within OWL Lite/DL and Full ontologies without breaking the species through use of untyped properties and/or wrongly typed properties. The ontologies are available here: OWL Lite/DL Dublin Core: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/dublincore.owl http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/terms.owl http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/dcmitype.owl OWL Full Dublin Core: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/dublincore-owlfull.owl http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/terms-owlfull.owl http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo/ontologies/dcmitype-owlfull.owl I have decided to factor out all statements that make the DC declarations OWL Full into separate ontologies and include the OWL Lite/DL version via owl:imports. This appears to be a good design pattern for designing OWL Full ontologies since maximum reuse for non-Full "agents" is guaranteed. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best regards, Raphael Volz -- Raphael Volz Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/rvo volz@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de WIM, FZI Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de/wim volz@fzi.de Fax: 01212-5-470-17-365
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