Nikolaos; One approach would be to FILTER out the class instances. I.e.:
{ ?this :prop ?value .
...
?undesiredInstance a :SubClass1 .
FILTER (?this != ?undesiredInstance)
}
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> On Apr 3, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Nikolaos Beredimas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Quoting from http://www.w3.org/Submission/spin-modeling/ :
>
>> In other words, SPIN class descriptors can only "narrow down" and further
>> restrict what has been defined further up in the class hierarchy. In this
>> spirit, global class descriptions are those that are attached to the root
>> class rdfs:Resource or its OWL equivalent owl:Thing.
>
>
> So if you define a rule/constraint/... for owl:Thing, it is a global rule. It
> applies to every subclass of owl:Thing automatically.
>
> I have come across some use cases where this isn't the desirable behavior. I
> was wondering, therefore, if there is a stanard, SPIN way, of annotating a
> class, or the top class of a sub-hierarchy of classes, to exclude a specific
> rule/constraint or a collection of rules/constraints from applying to this
> class/classes.
> Ofc, I could edit said class and annotate it with a custom property, and edit
> the spin rule/constraint accordingly to check for that annotation
> or, I could edit the classes hierarchy and move said class to a different
> hierarchy
> or any other custom solution.
>
> But I was wondering if there was a SPIN specified way of doing this.
>
> TL;DR
> How to exclude specified SPIN rules from applying to specified subclasses,
> using only the SPIN vocabulary
>
> PS. Apologies if the answer is too obvious
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