In my own work, I no longer use anything from the OWL namespace except owl:imports. However, some people start they class hierarchies at owl:Thing basically to distinguish "domain" classes from "system" classes. But that's an arbitrary distinction and thus problematic too. owl:DatatypeProperty and owl:ObjectProperty are not really needed and don't add value except hypothetical backwards compatibility with tools that only understand OWL and not RDF.

Your list below on selected resources from RDF/S namespaces is what I use as well. rdfs:subClassOf is very important and is even used officially in the SHACL spec. rdfs:label and comment are well-established. I am typically not using rdfs:subPropertyOf because this takes us on a slippery slope of requiring inferences (walking the subclass hierarchy is simply unavoidable, while putting subproperties into a hierarchy is often over-used to categorize properties, and for that there are better alternatives). In general, SHACL has no notion of properties as stand-alone entities, i.e. you don't even need to define an rdf:type for the properties.

Holger


On 5/07/2018 7:22, Bohms, H.M. (Michel) wrote:

Hi Irene

Ok , but would there be any extra benefit (beyond just rdf:property) when not OWL-inferencing?

Ie why would I introduce only those from owl when cwa/shacl modelling?

(just playing devils advocate)

Thx michel

        

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I do not see much harm in having owl:DatatypeProperty and owl:ObjectProperty. Most modeling languages differentiate between attributes and relationships.

Of course, with SHACL this is not really needed, but may be useful as an annotation.

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On Jul 4, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Bohms, H.M. (Michel) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi David,

    Some background (vcon/interlink – like).

    We have a use case where data is exchanged between a client (infra
    asset manager) and a contractor say about a road section or bridge.

    They have to use the same ontology in the middle but both parties
    might have more detailed restrictions to which they want to
    validate. So we have both data sharing and data validation.

    (note there will be a n x m relationship between client &
    contractors).

    We have to convince them linked data is feasible (beyond
    relational) so we have to keep things as simple as possible at
    least as CWA as possible. They are scary about OWA…

    With the below I was investigating how simple I can go. Seems like
    in the middle (sharing):

    RDFS

    - rdfs:Class

    - rdfs:Datatype

    - rdfs:subClassOf

    - rdfs:label / rdfs:comment

    RDF

    - rdf:Property

    - rdf:Datatype

    - rdf:type

    XSD

    - xsd:string

    - xsd:float

    - xsd:integer

    - xsd:boolean

    And on the sides (validation): full shacl.

    In the middle we then define/agree things like Bridge,
    TrafficBarrier etc as rdfs classes and designLifeExpectancy as rdf
    properties (ie no complex ‘objectfications). We only add in
    facilities for:

    - decomposition (hasDirectpartOf), that can be constrained (CWA)
    on class level, and

    - quantities & unit (CDT units) where quantities (better:
    quantityKinds) are modelled as datatypes and the units in WKT like
    “230 mm”

    That’s seems a nice compromise between power and simplicty in this
    case….(especially the transformations that is format translators
    and semantics convertors to and from their native applications
    (typically relational) stay simple enough too… (round trip data
    client <> contractor involving syntax/semantics via some middle
    takes 8 transformations now…so in parallel we will promote sharing
    iso conversion…..).

    Gr michel

        

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    Hi Michel

    I would say you’ve not given enough background for a clear answer.

    Background items like these could change the answer :

    Are you sharing with others?  If so, what tools do they have?

    Are you implementing an app? If not what or who is the customer?

    Are you defining  something to be taken and extended by others?

    Where is source of any data?  Does it have a data model? Is it a
    fixed or growing set of data, or does it not exist yet?

    For example, if your data is fully specified wrt data type and
    type and is complete and a good existing app generates it and you
    are just harvesting it for linking, for example, then  OWA
    concerns are less important.

    Just a few thoughts to consider.

    Cheers,

    David


    On 4 Jul 2018, at 11:54, Bohms, H.M. (Michel) <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        Thx!

        So, to be sure (100-harmless), I could use even a subset of
        RDFS (“RDFS-“) without domain & range for sharing the vocabulary.

        Domain and range can come in at SHACL.

        ‘RDFS-‘ would then be simply:

        - rdfs:Class

        - rdfs:Property

        - rdfs:Datatype

        - rdfs:subClassOf

        - rdfs:subPropertyOf

        - meta-stuff like: rdfs:label / rdfs:comment /rdfs:seeAlso /
        rdfs:isDefinedBy

                

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        My subjective answer:

        RDFS has OWA semantics, but RDFS has so little expressivity
        that it’s OW-ness doesn’t really become a problem. So I would
        consider the inclusion of RDFS definitions “mostly harmless”.
        Especially rdfs:subClassOf is fine. I find rdfs:domain and
        rdfs:range more problematic, but that’s not because of OWA per
        se, but because their semantics is not what most people expect.

        Richard





            On 4 Jul 2018, at 08:01, Bohms, H.M. (Michel)
            <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

            In case the purpose of modelling is really‘data
            validation’would it be better to go for SHACL-only (ie
            CWA-only) or still combine SHACL with RDFS?

            (like inhttp://spinrdf.org/shacl-and-owl.html). Would
            there be a downside of a SHACL-only approach. Like always
            having to specify properties in the context of a shape?

            In case of validation AND data sharing would it still work
            or would it be better to use‘RDFS + SHACL’where the SHACL
            is separately used at say 2 validation sides (importing
            the RDFS) and RDFS-only for the sharing spec?

            But then introducing some potential OWA/inference in the
            middle (that doesn’t HAVE to be utilized). Or is all THAT
            inference harmless wrt OWA/CWA discussion (ie inferencing
            rdfs superclass instantiation).

            Thx for your views here, Michel

                

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