Hi Holger, Somehow YOUR reply came in my spam box, so my response is a bit late,
But what an interesting personal view! Still I think we run into formal problems ignoring the official RDFS semantics. Informal expectations might this way conflict with reasoners output etc. Informally “Adding properties to class” by formally adding “classes to properties (ie domain definitions)” is IMHO a recipe for problems. If you do this and then say the properties are somehow “inherited” to the subclasses I think things get even worse. (I was triggered on this issue earlier when using your EVN approach where properties are depicted as belonging to a class in case of domains specified). So, when you say “not entirely correct” I would rather say “entirely incorrect” But ok, this is just MY personal view, gr Michel Dr. ir. H.M. (Michel) Bohms Sr. Research Scientist Structural Reliability T +31 (0)88 866 31 07 M +31 (0)63 038 12 20 E michel.bo...@tno.nl<mailto:michel.bo...@tno.nl> Location<http://www.tno.nl/locaties/DTM> [cid:image001.gif@01CF8EF7.F351BBC0]<http://www.tno.nl/> This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. TNO accepts no liability for the content of this e-mail, for the manner in which you use it and for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent to the electronic transmission of messages. From: topbraid-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:topbraid-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Holger Knublauch Sent: zondag 22 juni 2014 11:10 To: topbraid-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [topbraid-users] domain ' inheritance' Thx very much for your consideration. In NL were working on a national modeling guide in which linking classes <> properties is an important issue (typically difficult/different for many involved since it differs from tradiotional modeling approaches). In my *personal* opinion you may also chose to simply ignore the official RDFS semantics and apply the intuitive and mainstream interpretation of rdfs:domain as a way to "attach" a property to a class, rdfs:range to restrict the values and rdfs:subClassOf as inheritance. While officially this is not entirely correct, it will most likely have no negative side effects to start with that (object-oriented) point of view for your ontologies. After more than ten years of semantic technology standards, the official formal semantics have not become widely used and in my *personal* opinion this is never going to change either. See the increasing popularity of JSON-LD and "simple" ontologies like schema.org to see where this is going. Holger -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com<mailto:topbraid-users@googlegroups.com> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto:topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
