Gerard, I am willing to help. What do you want explained? (We can perhaps
move that off-list.)

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2017-01-08 8:52 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:

> Hoi,
> What I mean and what I say is that there has been noone willing to explain
> why certain items are in there. When you ask questions it is seen as a
> threat and consequently I find I am treated like one. The consequence is
> that I do not care about the structure and totally ignore it. This is a
> shame because on occasion I do expect this has an impact.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On 8 January 2017 at 00:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Markus Kroetzsch, 08/01/2017 00:12:
>>
>>> The subclass of and instance of statements are actually used in very
>>> many WDQS queries, often with * expressions to navigate the hierarchy.
>>>
>>
>> I think that's what Gerard meant: you don't have to know what's under the
>> hood, as long as it works. When you get some unexpected result, you go
>> check what went wrong in the chain of subclasses etc. This is at least what
>> I do, although I also work with some more traditional people who want to
>> know the full ontology before even entering their first statement (of
>> course they get lost for a few months).
>>
>> Nemo
>>
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