< I suspect I'm doing something, wrong that is changing the semantics of the Classes somehow>
Just to add to Scott's reply: RDF/XML is one of serializations for RDF. Using it the same information could be serialized somewhat differently - that is there are allowed variations in the exact XML syntax, but the meaning is the same. So, you don't need to worry about changes in the semantics. There are no changes. Irene -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Henninger Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 10:27 AM To: TopBraid Suite Users Subject: [topbraid-users] Re: Top Braid Subclassing Christoper; This is an artifact of the RDF/XML text serialization. You can read about this in the W3C standards or in Jena, which we use to serialize text. The syntax you show here is known as RDF/XML Abbreviated. You could also try exporting your data to plain RDF/XML by using Export... > Export/Merrge/Convert RDF Graphs and choose RDF/ XML. A standard serialization that is more compact, quicker to load and human readable is Turtle. You can convert to that format throgt the aforementioned Export feature. An additional feature of Turtle is that it uses the same format as the query language, SPARQL. -- Scot On Jun 23, 9:45 am, Christopher Power <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just to provide a little more detail, here is a more complete example: > > In Top Braid composer, I am creating an ontology with a set of classes: > Superclass: Entity > Subclass: Event, Location, Actor (and a few others) > > After creating the classes in the editor, I can look at the RDF for each, > and I get the following types things that look how I expect: > > <owl:Class rdf:ID="Entity"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing"/> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:ID="Event"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Entity"/> > <rdfs:comment rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:ID="Actor"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Entity"/> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:ID="Location"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Entity"/> > </owl:Class> > > However, when I open the RDF file I find that the subclasses are all quite > varied in how they are defined: > > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Entity"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing"/> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Event"> > <rdfs:subClassOf> > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Entity"/> > </rdfs:subClassOf> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Location"> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Entity"/> > </owl:Class> > > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Actor"> > <rdfs:subClassOf> > <owl:Class rdf:about="#Entity"/> > </rdfs:subClassOf> > </owl:Class> > > As you can see - Event and Actor are defined differently from that of > Location. Can anyone shed some light on > why this is happening and if I can somehow get TopBraid to define them all > consistently? I suspect I'm doing something > wrong that is changing the semantics of the Classes somehow, I'm just not > sure what it is. > > Thanks again in advance for any advice. > Cheers, > Chris -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
