What's the natural way to model "The distance between Chicago and New York is 1000 miles" in RDF?
The only way I could come up with is ugly and really models "Chicago is 1000 miles distant from New York" (same semantic meaning, but makes Chicago seem more important, instead of indicating a symmetric relation). My ugly model: Chicago has_property DistanceRelation#1 DistanceRelation#1 has_target "New York" DistanceRelation#1 has_distance "1000 miles" In other words, Chicago has a property called "DistanceRelation#1", and DistanceRelation#1 is an object that represents a distance of 1000 miles from New York. Of course, Miami has_property DistanceRelation#1 might hold as well, so DistanceRelation#1 doesn't really seem to encapsulate what I want. Is there a cleaner way to do this in RDF? (I realize Chicago/Miami aren't 1000 miles from New York-- this is just an example). -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
