Thank you Irene for your prompt response, and the point re singular tense has been taken on board.
With regard to the intention/meaning, yes the ontology will make reference to published material in part. Thanks again for the help and may I take this opportunity as a new user to express how impressed I am with TBC and now also with the level of support I have just received, it is all too easy nowadays for companies to overlook the needs of those who are trying to learn something new.. I look forward to getting my hands on TBC Maestro soon, Im saving the pennies /cents as we speak :-) On Apr 19, 9:45 pm, "Irene Polikoff" <[email protected]> wrote: > Your second approach looks better simply because Section is not a subclass > of Book. > > Book has a relationship with Section as in a book contains some sections. > With this, instances of a Book would be individual book titles and instances > of a Section would be all the various sections contained in books. > > I do not know what is the intention/meaning of a class Books. Is it > something like a PublishedMaterial? One best practice we typically recommend > is to stick with a singular tense in a class name. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of AkaJohn > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:42 PM > To: TopBraid Suite Users > Subject: [topbraid-users] Best Practice Ontology Design > > Hi All, > > I am just beginning to feel my way around the Sem Web and am currently > building my first semi-serious ontology using TBC.I apologise if this > is off topic but I am hoping you can help. My question is this > > Taking the fictional example of books, which would be the better > practice for modelling the sections/chapters of idividual books as > classes > > owl:thing > Books > Book1 > Section1 > Seciton2 > Book2 > Section1 > Section2 > > ie each individual/member of the section class from every book is > located within its own parent class book class > or > > owl:thing > Books > Title > Section1 > instance/member attrib book1 > instance/member attrib book2 > Section2 > > where each individual/member is located in the relevant section and > identified by an addional attribute eg a book number > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, > TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
