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RDF & Owl: A Simple Overview of The B
RDF & Owl: A Simple Overview of The B
Identified?
In order to make meaningful statements in RDF,
the thing you’re talking about has to be identified in
some unique way.
http://www.foaf.com/Person#RachelLovinger
http://www.allmovie.com/Actor#WillSmith
RDF Properties
• type
• subClassOf
• subPropertyOf
• range
• domain
• label
• comment
This means that all members of the actor class are also
members of the Person class. All properties are inherited,
and new properties specific to Actor can be added.
<http://www.allmovie.com/Actor#WillSmith> <label>
<Will Smith>
<https://aarfwiki.main.corp/wiki/index.php/File:RDF_
OWL.pdf> <comment> <A presentation that Rachel
gave at the December 2007 Semantic Web Affinity
Group Meeting>
EdibleThing
subClassOf
typeOf
Fruit
BerryPie
typeOf ingredientOf
Blackberry
Ontologies?
Definition and classification of concepts and
entities, and the relationships between them.
Equality
• sameAs – indicates that two resources actually
refer to the same real-world thing or concept
<wills> <sameAs> <wismith>
Richer Properties
• Symmetric – a relationship between A and B is
also true between B and A
<WillSmith> <marriedTo> <JadaPinkettSmith>
implies <JadaPinkettSmith> <marriedTo> <WillSmith>
Inferences
• Create new triples based on existing triples
• Deduce new facts based on the stated facts