From: Booth, D. (HP S. - Boston) <db...@hp...> - 2008-08-18 19:50:29
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I'm trying to use Semantic MediaWiki to define a group of related RDF/OWL classes, and I'm puzzled about the correspondence between the SMW notion of "categories" versus the RDFS or OWL notions of "class". The example in the SMW manual http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inferencing showing categories Person, Woman and Man, which sound very analogous to what I would have considered RDFS or OWL classes, and when I export the RDF, I want them represented as real RDFS or OWL classes, with rdfs:subClassOf or owl:subClassof relationships between them, but that doesn't seem to happen if I represent them as SMW categories. Should I be trying to use SMW categories for this purpose or must I explicitly define rdfs:subClassOf or owl:subClassof relationships? In playing around with SMW, I'm getting the impression that it is more oriented toward instance data than class data. Is this a correct impression? Is SMW suitable for describing a group of related classes? If so, how do others normally approach this? Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | db...@hp... http://www.hp.com/go/software Statements made herein represent the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of HP unless explicitly so stated. |