- From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:47:10 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
RDFS extends RDF by assigning a semantics to particular RDF constructs. For example, the property "subClassOf" is given a (relatively informal) semantics in the RDFS specification. The same should be true for DAML-ONT - it extends RDF/RDFS by assigning a semantics (preferably well defined) to certain constructs. It is pointless to say that we rely on the semantics of the host language (RDF/RDFS in this case) as in this case we are not extending it, just writing something down in it - I can say x subClassOf y in RDF, but it doesn't have any meaning beyond the fact that x is related to y by some relation that just happens to have the name subClassOf. Ian -- Ian Horrocks, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 161 275 6133 Fax: +44 161 275 6204 Email: horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk URL: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks
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