Re: Syntactic Mapping vs Class level

   [Marty Hagenston]
   Yes all Beretta 92 Series Pistols are a subclass of 9mm Automatic
   Pistol.   So even though the two separately authored ontologies I am
   trying to reconcile describe the same 9mm pistol syntactically
   different, I can still declare the Beretta 92 Series Pistol as a
   subclass of 9mm Automatic Pistol and inherit the properties of the 9mm
   Automatic Pistol class disregarding the articulation of the syntax?  

Yes, if I understand the question correctly.

   It
   is important to me to ensure the FS instance of the Beretta 92 Series
   Pistol class = the Beretta 92FS instance of the 9mm Automatic Pistol
   class.  Would I still be able to infer this without the lower level
   syntactic articulation?

I don't see how.  You need an inference rule that infers such
equalities from the names of classes:

   An instance of Beretta 92 Series Pistol named x
   = An instance of 9mm Automatic Pistol named Beretta 92x

There's no way to say that in OWL.

                                             -- Drew

P.S. I'm cc-ing this to www-rdf-logic; I trust you don't mind.

Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2003 11:39:48 UTC