[
Lists Home |
Date Index |
Thread Index
]
I'm trying to figure out a good way to model the following problem type in OWL and would appreciate any help the more OWLish members of the list could offer. (BTW, is there a better list for RDF/OWL questions?).
I have a class of objects, some of which can be transformed pairwise into one another, in other words a partial mapping from a set A onto itself.
The mappings are inherently transitive- if individual a maps to Individual b and b to c, then I have identified a path from a to c- but not necessarily symmetric.
In order to preserve the transitive property, I define a property with the ID="hasMapping" and a domain and range of class A. I state that this property has an rdf:type of owl:TransitiveProperty. Now, I need to associate a Java class that actually implements the transformation with that property. Can I define a "property on a property" in OWL? I think that is what I want to do- the property would have a property (NOT a subproperty) named "usesMappingClass". Is that legitimate?
The other way I thought of doing it is to associate a mapping class with the instance that is being mapped; however, I lose the transitivity of the relationship that way. In other words, I could define a "hasMapping" on the domain of Class A with a range of "MappingClass", but that is not a transitive property.
Advice?
Thanks,
Linda
|
