Hi Paul,
I agree with you, and that's why I said adopting a foundational ontology
would be unwise for DBpedia: it is so heterogeneus, that it would be hard,
if not impossible, to get every single aspect right. However, a totally
property-infered model, like Samaruga proposed, would not really
Marcelo,
classes have their place, but people get into a lot of trouble by
taking classes too seriously or deciding they have to be organized some
particular way.
People tend to disagree about classes more than they disagree about
properties, for instance, this famous film critic
