I'm curious about what people think of the appropriateness of using a class from the dbpedia ontology as the range in another ontology. Here's the particular case I have in mind.
I'm working on an app that will ask faculty at my school to give additional info about their courses by using references to wikipedia pages, and hence to dbpedia. So we'd have triples like: ex:Course1 univ:studiesPerson dbres:Michelangelo . The range of univ:studiesPerson should be just fine as dbpedia-owl:Person. But, imagine this is an art class, and a particular work of art they are studying is the Pieta. It would be nice to have a property univ:studiesWork with range dbpedia-owl:Work to make a triple like: ex:Course1 univ:studiesWork dbres:Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo) Inference would then say that the resource for the Pieta is a dbpedia-owl:Work, which I think makes conceptual sense, but I worry that it might run afoul of how those classes came about and how they work (no pun intended). So, what's the consensus on using dbpedia-owl classes as the range for properties in other ontologies? Thanks much, Patrick Murray-John http://semantic.umwblogs.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
