Re: [OEP] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
Date: 12/09/04

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    Not according to the instructions in the document, not that I exactly
    followed them! 
    
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    peter
    
    
    From: "Uschold, Michael F" <michael.f.uschold@boeing.com>
    Subject: [OEP] RE: comment on N-ary relations draft
    Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:37:08 -0800
    
    > Please remember to place [OEP] in the message header when discussing OEP
    > issues
    > 
    > Thanks
    > Mike
    > 
    > 
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider [mailto:pfps@research.bell-labs.com] 
    > Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 6:44 AM
    > To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
    > Cc: joint-committee@daml.org
    > Subject: comment on N-ary relations draft
    > 
    > 
    > I just read the N-ary relations draft and I am somewhat confused as to
    > why
    > it has the two representation patterns.  I don't see that the two
    > patterns
    > are different in any substantial way as the only difference between them
    > is
    > the direction of one arrow.  This difference may matter in some
    > formalisms
    > but doesn't in RDF/RDFS (as they are too weak to notice much difference)
    > or
    > OWL (as it has the inverse construct).
    > 
    > So, my question is why maintain the two different representation
    > patterns?
    > 
    > Peter F. Patel-Schneider
    > Bell Labs Research
    > 
    


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