-----Original Message----- From: Carlo Meghini <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:53:10 +0100
Thanks, dear Carlo. I wait a bit more in order to steal from the Greeks' model (Martin told us about). In the mean time, I'm struglling with the mineralogy :-) Dan > Any one of your proposals works for 1, but the tricky part is to implement > acyclicity, I suppose. > > I may propose an hazardous answer to 2: to define a property P that is a > sub-property of isSubClassOf, especially designed for bio- taxonomies. So: > > P rdfs:isSubPropertyOf rdfs:isSubClassOf . > Mammalia P Chordata . > > As a consequence, every Mammal will be a Chordatum. Plus you can specify > additional axioms for P, for instance that its domain/range are biological > classes. If you don't like that, you may reverse the SubProperty link? > > Ciao Dan, nice to hear from you. > > Carlo > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Dan Matei <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Friends. > > > > Today I'm in the taxonomy :-) Very incompetent :-( > > > > So I ask for advice... > > > > 1. How to name the relationship between the taxonomic ranks ? > > > > <class> <has_superior_rank> <phylum> ? > > > > or <has_upper_rank> or <has_immediately_upper_rank> or something without > > "rank" ? > > > > 2. How to name the relationship between particular taxons ? > > > > The definition of "phylum" in Wordnet uses the word "contains". > > http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=phylum > > > > "S: (n) phylum ((biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; > > contains classes)" > > > > So: > > > > <Mammalia> <is_contained_in> <Chordata> > > > > is acceptable ? There is a practice already ? > > > > Or should I be bold and use crm:P150_defines_typical_parts_of ? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Dan Matei > > director, Direcția Patrimoniu Cultural Mobil, Imaterial și Digital > > [Movable, Intangible and Digital Heritage Department] > > Institutul Național al Patrimoniului [National Heritage Institute], > > București [Bucharest, Romania] > > Piața Presei Libere nr. 1, CP 33-90 > > tel. 0725 253 222, (+4)021 317 90 72; fax (+4)021 317 90 64 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Crm-sig mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Carlo Meghini > > Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione [ISTI] > Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche [CNR] > > Via G. Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa - Italy > Tel: +39 050 6212893 > Mob: +39 348 3972164 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
