TBC-users,
I want to make sure I am using the tool the way it was intended so I
have a few questions.

FOAF --
If I go to the canonical URI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ using the
File:Import...,
I end up with a lot of data in TBC that at first seemed very
confusing.  Then I found an edited FOAF file on Holger's blog (thanks
so much) which had these annotated modifications:
--
This is a modified version of the official FOAF specification,
optimized for editing tools such as TopBraid.
Changes include:
- removed { ?p rdf:type rdf:Property }  on properties that are also
owl:DatatypeProperty etc
- removed { ?p rdfs:domain owl:Thing }  to prevent these properties
from showing up on all forms
- removed { ?p rdfs:range owl:Thing }  especially for inverse
properties for the same reason
- removed subclass relationships into external ontologies such as
wordnet to keep the class tree flat
--
* Why is it that the canonical version not be friendly to the editing
tools and what is lost by making these edits?
* Was it generated from a tool that was too verbose?  or Should TBC
just filter out this redundant triples?
Ultimately, I'm trying to understand these changes such that I too can
clean up these ontologies so that they are readable and useful to
TBC.

Other Ontologies --
I'm looking at playing with DOAP (Description of a Program), DOAC
(Description of a Career), EARL (Evaluation and Reporting Language) ,
etc.  Lets take DOAP as a example so I can make sure I am using TBC
correctly.
I'm assuming that the process is the same:
- find the DOAP website  http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap
- find the ontology.  In this case it is not OWL but an RDF-S
http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#
- using File:Import... I use import file from web and name the file
doap.rdf (should I have done doap.owl?  gut says yes)
If this process is correct, then it would appear that I need to follow
a similar modification process like Holger did for foaf.owl

I have another related question but I will ask it in another thread.

--tk


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