but i need the mapping code.... how to map the class...
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Chris_Dollin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, April 15, 2013 10:15:35 AM aarthi wrote: > > hi i have two ontology.. consider ont1 and ont2. if both ont1 and ont2 > > have a class named employee. And ont1's employee class have a sub > > class named age. but ont2's employee class doesn't have that class. i > > need to specify a relation that age "is-a" subclass of ont2's employee > > class. how to do that using jena? anyone help me > > It depends on exactly what you're trying to do and how you've set > up the ontologies. > > Ignoring all the details, all you need to do in ont2 is to add the > statement > > age RDFS.isSubclassOf employee > > where age is set up to be the `age` class and employee is set up to > be the `employee` class. Adding the statement is then one call > to the appropriate Model.add(). > > However, whether that's the right answer -- "right" as in making > your application work clearly and effectively -- depends on what your > application is trying to do, whether you need to keep ont1 and ont2 > separate or bother with ont2 at all, whether `age` is just a named > class or a restriction, etc & co. Which we don't know. > > Chris >
