- From: <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:50:29 -0400 (EDT)
- To: algermissen@acm.org
- Cc: "www-rdf-interest@w3.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
> > Hi, > > I know about the various ways to constrain individual properties, but > I seem to be unable to find out if there is a standard way of restricting > the set of properties instances of a given class may 'have'. > (Like relational tables form classes by grouping attributes) > > Is there an RDF vocabulary for this purpose? > > Hmm....what about owl:minCardinality (and owl:maxCardinality)? Does > a missing cardinality of a property for a class imply the cardinality of > zero? > Or would relying on that be too application specific? >From my reading it would be incorrect. Essentially RDF is an ever-increasing collection of statements, so I don't think there is a way of doing this. with OWL you can make statements about particular properties and their cardinality, but I don't think you can restrict in any way other statements being made. You could use trust vocabularies to say that all other statemets are not trustworthy... cheers Chaals
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