- From: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:08:29 -0700
- To: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
- cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org, "Maria Teresa Pazienza" <pazienza@info.uniroma2.it>, "Fabio Zanzotto" <zanzotto@info.uniroma2.it>, "Patrizia Paggio" <patrizia@cst.dk>
> So, clearly the subclassification we get from all that is as following: > > Entity > SHOEEntity > PhysicalObject > Thing > > On the other end, Thing is defined as the "Top Class" by DAML+OIL Recall that in RDF/DAML+OIL/OWL classes and other resources are named by full URIs, so http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/DAML/onts/general1.0.daml#Thing and http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing are different Things. > So I suppose "Entity" is a subclass of daml:Thing? Or are they considered > equivalent? Any Class is implicitly a subClassOf daml:Thing (but not necessarily a proper subclass). One could potentially equate Entity and daml:Thing using daml:sameClassAs. Mike
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