Re: SubClassOf or equivalentOF

Quoting Richard Lennox <listserve@richardlennox.net>:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible (legal) to create a subClassOf an RDF collection such that
> the collection is renamed but equivalent to rdf:bag or rdf:seq.
> 
> eg
> 
> C1 rdfs:subClassOf rdf:seq
> C2 rdfs:subClassOf rdf:bag

Sure, why not. To make it absolutely equivalent to rdf:Bag then you would want
to have the rdfs:subClassOf going in both directions:

C1 rdfs:subClassOf rdf:Bag
rdf:Bag rdfs:subClassOf C1.

> or woud it be possible to create such that one class is the equivalent of
> the collection using OWL.

C1 owl:sameAs rdf:Bag.

> What is the best way of doing this?

IMHO, just using rdf:Bag and forgetting about C1.

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Received on Thursday, 6 May 2004 10:14:21 UTC