Dereference, in that context, means something different than what I
was using the term for.
They mean that there has to be a definition of the subject and object
in the OWL file or one of the imports.
I was using it to mean, go to the network and do a geturl of the uri
and do something with the results. OWL and RDF doesn't specify that
you do that. That would certainly not work, since most of the URLs
prior to the semantic web don't have RDF or OWL content.
-Alan
On Jun 19, 2006, at 7:03 AM, John Barkley wrote:
According
to:
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#Property and
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_range, subjects and objects of
properties are "instances" of classes which means they dereference.
Presumably, the names we define will be used early on as subjects
and/or
objects of ObjectProperties. Unless the names are only to be
objects in
DatatypeProperties, then they should dereference to their
definitions as an
individual of a class.
