- From: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 18:50:35 -0400
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- cc: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, Enrico Motta <e.motta@open.ac.uk>, Deborah McGuinness <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>, Webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
> Frank - not sure if this is true in a multi-ontology setting > > jim:foo owl:sameClassAs frank:bar. > > can be used in cases where the only way to create the cycle would be > for me to call you up and ask you to put a pointer to my subclass in > your document. You're currently free to say jim:foo owl:subClassOf frank:bar . frank:bar owl:subClassOf jim:foo . in your document (although some may consider the latter bad style). This relates to [1]. > So I think some of these things (the "equivalentTo > family") are important for the cross ontology requirement as well as > within ontologies. I agree that these idioms are important even if not logically required. Mike [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#2.3-Adding-Properties-to-Other-Classes
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