- From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:38:30 +0100
- To: "Jos De_Roo" <jos.deroo@agfa.com>
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
On September 20, Jos De_Roo writes: > > > Ian: > > On September 20, Jos De_Roo writes: > > > > > > Bijan asked me to have an euler run of > > > http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/OWL/Ontologies/galen.owl > > > and I tried a simple query > > > http://www.agfa.com/w3c/temp/galen-query.n3 > > > ie find ?A rdfs:subClassOf ?B. > > > with option --think (find more solutions) > > > and --nope (no proof explanation of the results). > > > The answer we found is at > > > http://www.agfa.com/w3c/temp/galen-result.n3 > > > but I'm wondering how that compares to > > > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jul/att-0305/galen-taxonomy > > > > It is hard to check that manually. Ian? > > > Maybe I should do some other tests; I'm not yet > > > that familiar with ontology practice... > > > > If you can provide results in the same format as [1], then I have > > software that will compare the two sets of results and output any > > differences. In case you are puzzled by the contents of [1], it > > reports the subsumption partial ordering of named classes in the > > ontology in the form of a set of "taxonomy locations" for each class > > name in the ontology, where a taxonomy location consists of a > > lisp-style list containing 3 elements: the class name, a list of its > > direct superclasses, and a list of its direct subclasses. > > OK, that's interesting (just will probably not find > time to output in that format, at least not now - > have to help with re-papering a room ;-)). > Maybe an rdf kind of format to report the subsumption > partial ordering of named classes in the ontology is > also feasable, maybe it already exists? It would be feasible - in fact it could take the form of a very simple "asserted" ontology. Sadly, it doesn't already exist. Ian > > > Ian > > > > [1] > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jul/att-0305/galen-taxonomy > > > -- > Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/ >
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