[rdfweb-dev] back on track, now: domain of naming properties

Benjamin Nowack office at e-senses.de
Thu Oct 9 15:32:46 UTC 2003


Hi FOAFers,

short implementaion report: ;-)
A couple of weeks ago I posted a comment on some fundamental problems
I had trying to make an OWL editor work with the FOAF RDFS schema [1].
It really seems to be the case that you cannot use OWL (Lite/DL) 
tools with RDFS class definitions. sad but true. Took me some time to
find a solution but now I'm back again to ask further stupid questions:

In order to make my editor generate FOAF-based html forms, I have to
manually import the FOAF classes and properties from the schema once.
I now came across foaf:title and foaf:nick which have no domain or 
range specified (at least I couldn't find them). range is clear 
(rdfs:Literal or xsd:string) but would the domain be a foaf:Agent or
just any resource (in my case owl:Thing)?

p.s.: the editor is part of my thesis but I'm thinking about 
      installing a (someday hopefully) stable version on a server 
      and/or making the code (php) available. people could then 
      create and store their foaf files online. would this make 
      sense? any comments, anyone interested in such a service/tool?


greetinx,
benjamin

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[1] http://rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2003-September/011935.html




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