Hey Frans, Dublin Core Terms has some general properties for this: dct:hasPart http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-hasPart dct:isPartOf http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isPartOf
Martynas graphity.org On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.kni...@geodan.nl> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to express a composition relationship. Something like: > A Country consist of Provinces > A Province consists of Municipalities > > I thought this should be straightforward because this is a common and > logical kind of relationship, but I could not find a vocabulary which allows > be to make this kind of statement. Perhaps I am bad at searching, or maybe I > did not use the right words. > > I did find this document: > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/SimplePartWhole/ ("Simple > part-whole relations in OWL Ontologies"). It explains that OWL has no direct > support for this kind of relationship and it goes on to give examples on how > one can create ontologies that do support the relationship in one way or the > other. > > Is there a ready to use ontology/vocabulary out there that can help me > express containment/composition? > > Thanks in advance, > Frans > >