Argh, I said I wouldn't, but this came after.
On 30 Mar 2009, at 17:13, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
Hello Bijan, All,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Bijan Parsia
<bpar...@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
On 30 Mar 2009, at 16:38, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
Then it is not clear to me what you are claiming.
I'm claiming that classes in OWL are not typically intended to be
"instantiated" by users (in OWL).
A class may not be instantiated in every single use, but it is
intended to be instantiated in some cases. To dispute that, you would
have to give me an example of a class that is never instantiated.
Any NCI Thesaurus class.
It could be that the class hierachy *is* the intended output (most
controlled vocabularies, e.g., NCI Thesaurus, SNOMED).
Not all controlled vocabularies are ontologies.
NCI Thesarus is a controlled vocabularies generated by an ontology.
This is a standard use of ontologies. I guess I should be surprised
that you don't know that, but it turns out I'm not!
Cheers,
Bijan.
