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Salah Eddine Taouririt
Salah Eddine Taouririt

Reputation: 26415

How can RDF be defined using RDFS and OWL?

I just browsed this http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns and found this prefix declarations:

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .

if this supposed to define ? How can we use and in this document if we all know that is the basis of those languages?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 266

Answers (1)

Ignazio
Ignazio

Reputation: 10659

Note that in this example RDFS and OWL are purely namespaces - there is no hierarchy of classes or properties, nor any class restrictions or other RDFS or OWL constructs.

The basic definitions are not included in actual RDFS or OWL ontologies - this is not a default top level ontology (for example, the label for rdf:type cannot be found searching in an RDFS ontology, unless it contains explicitly these triples.

You could consider this example a metaontology - looks more like a convenient format to hold a few basic information, which could be embedded in the specs instead.

Upvotes: 3

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