And there is also a talk page:
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Talk:N-ary_relations
On 8/10/07, Sergey Chernyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if I understand what you added to the topic. In any case,
> please take a look at: http://ontoworld.org/wiki/N-ary_relations
>
> --
> Sergey Chernyshev
> http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/
>
>
> On 8/10/07, Eep² < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I know this thread is kind of old but I have some suggestions to
> > streamline this a bit. The relationships/attributes/properties
> > (whatever) are too wordy. Instead, these are shorter and more
> > grammatically correct, shorter, less syllables, faster to type, etc:
> >
> > has president -> president
> > begin of term -> term begin
> > end of term -> term end
> > location -> place
> >
> > Also, with the new property, er, property (attribute? option?
> > parameter?), will it work like relationships do now with
> > [[relationship::name]] where the "::" (double colons) create a link
> > where as [[attribute:=name]] doesn't create a link? I ask
> > because I need that functionality for both parameters ("relationship"
> > and "attribute" in SMW .7) and I hope "property" can do both
> > links and non-links as well for the next SMW version.
> >
> > Last, if "property" can also accept just "prop" that would would make it
> > easier to use (and type)--"rel" and "att" could be
> > shortened forms of the current parameter names too.
> >
> >
> > MovGP0 wrote on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:14:47 -0800:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> > > <snip/>
> > >
> > > I guess the following idea would make things too complicated, but just
> > as
> > > theoretical question:
> > > would a "Type:Relation" be possible to implement?
> > >
> > > "has president": [[has Type:=[[Type:Wikipage]]; [[Type:Date]];
> > > [[Type:Relation]] ]]
> > > "end of term": [[has Type:=[[Type:String]]; [[Type:Date]];
> > [[Type:Wikipage]];
> > > [[Type:Wikipage]] ]]
> > >
> > > [[has president::John F. Kennedy; 1961; [[end of term:=assassination;
> > 22
> > > November 1963; Dallas; Lee Harvey Oswald]] ]]
> > > [[has president::Richard Nixon; 1969; [[end of term:= ; 1972]] ]]
> > > [[has president::Richard Nixon; 1972; [[end of term:=resignation; 9
> > August
> > > 1974;
> > > ; Watergate scandal]] ]]
> > > [[has president::G.W. Bush; 2001]]
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Günther
> >
> > I don't think that this is as flexible as the suggestions we made
> > already. Note that in the following example we get a much better
> > ontology:
> >
> > = BEGIN ==========================================
> > [[has president::
> > [[Person::John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]]
> > started to be president in
> > [[begin of term::
> > [[Year::1961|]]
> > ]]
> > and was
> > [[end of term::
> > [[Reason::
> > [[Type::assassination|assassinated]]
> > in
> > [[Location::Dallas|]]
> > by
> > [[by::Lee Harvey Oswald|]]
> > on
> > [[Date:=1963-10-22||November 22, 1963]]
> > ]]
> > ]]. After Kennedy,
> > [[has president::
> > [[Person::Richard Nixon|]]
> > started to be president in
> > [[begin of term::
> > [[Year::1969|]]
> > ]]
> > till
> > [[end of therm:: [[Year::1969|]
> > ]] then the was rejected and started his term again in
> > [[has president::
> > [[Person::Richard Nixon]]
> > [[begin of term::
> > [[Year::1969|]]
> > ]]
> > but
> > [[end of term::
> > [[Reason::
> > [[Type::resignation|resignated]]
> > because of the
> > [[Because::Watergate scandal|]]
> > on
> > [[Date:=1974-08-09|August 9, 1974]]
> > ]]. Since
> > [[has president::
> > [[begin of term::
> > [[Year:2001|]]
> > [[Person::George Walker Bush|G. W. Bush]]
> > ]]
> > ]]
> > won the election and is therefore the current president.
> > = END =============================================
> >
> > Note that I can mix ordinary text with markup (a <nowiki> or
> > <nosemantic> element might be possible too, but then the source becomes
> > even harder to read) and there is no need to keep the format - If I want
> >
> > to do so I can use Templates, but that comes with a loss of flexibility
> > if the template is not well scripted:
> >
> > {{has president|John F. Kennedy|1961|1963|assassinated}}
> >
> > Also a vertical bar right before the closing brackets will repeat the
> > text that is given as argument. Relations marked with :: and having a
> > non-complex value will get interpreted as Link to an Article. Anyway, I
> > would take this only as example, because the starts and ends of being
> > president might be better placed into the articles of the presidents -
> > but this is a very subjective POV.
> >
>
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