Re: Defining "flavors" of subClassOf in OWL ?

Bernard,

I'll leave it to others to determine if what you are doing is valid in OWL, 
though I have no reason to believe it is not valid.

Assuming it is valid, the http://owl.bbn.com/validator has a bug in that it 
doesn't handle sub-classes or equivalent properties to rdfs:subClassOf or 
any other language element.  I'll look into fixing it.

David Rager
BBN Technologies

At 06:19 PM 7/10/2003 +0200, Bernard Vatant wrote:


>In Mondeca ITM internal management of classes, we have a generic
>functionality somehow equivalent to the distinction between "abstract" and
>"concrete" classes in Protégé. However, the distinction is not made by
>typing the classes themselves, but by typing the class-subClass
>relationship (aka Topic Map association). This means we have two "flavors"
>of subclassing, supporting different technical treatments.
>
>Trying to represent this in OWL, I defined two properties like
>
>p1 rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf
>p2 rdfs:subPropertyOf rdfs:subClassOf
>
>Now if I have three classes X, Y, Z such as (X p1 Y) and (Y p2 Z)
>
>I expect from the semantics of subPropertyOf that an OWL validator would
>infer:
>(X subClassOf Y) (Y subClassOf Z) (X subClassOf Z)
>
>Meaning if an ObjectProperty q has been declared e.g. of range Z, it should
>be validated if used with values in X.
>
>Not quite sure about it, I've tested precisely that situation on an example
>[1], and my two favourite OWL on-line validators seem to differ on the
>validation results.
>
>http://phoebus.cs.man.ac.uk:9999/OWL/Validator seems happy with it.
>http://owl.bbn.com/validator/ is not, and sends back a bunch of "range
>mismatch" error.
>
>Is this a bug in the validator, or is it a borderline example, or is it
>that subtyping "subClassOf" is altogether invalid in OWL, or what?
>
>A bottom line question is to know if that could be considered a
>recommended/neutral/bad practice.
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Bernard Vatant
>Senior Consultant
>Knowledge Engineering
>Mondeca - www.mondeca.com
>bernard.vatant@mondeca.com
>
>[1]
>http://www.daml.org/cgi-bin/hyperdaml?http://www.mondeca.com/owl/itmex.rdf

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:19:06 UTC