If you're strictly talking about geography there's also parentFeature in
the Geonames ontology (but this is already populated with relationships
like the ones you mentioned - worth checking if there's already coverage
if you haven't).
Barry
On 21/02/13 12:47, Frans Knibbe | Geodan wrote:
Hello,
I would like to express a composition relationship. Something like:
A Country consist of Provinces
A Province consists of Municipalities
I thought this should be straightforward because this is a common and
logical kind of relationship, but I could not find a vocabulary which
allows be to make this kind of statement. Perhaps I am bad at
searching, or maybe I did not use the right words.
I did find this document:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/SimplePartWhole/ ("Simple
part-whole relations in OWL Ontologies"). It explains that OWL has no
direct support for this kind of relationship and it goes on to give
examples on how one can create ontologies that do support the
relationship in one way or the other.
Is there a ready to use ontology/vocabulary out there that can help me
express containment/composition?
Thanks in advance,
Frans
