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RDF Schema
Classes, Properties, and Resources
- New classes: rdfs:Class, rdfs:Resource
- Certain relations between
- classes and classes: rdfs:subClassOf
- properties and properties: rdfs:subPropertyOf
- properties and classes: rdfs:range and rdfs:domain
- New inferences:
- a rdf:type B, B rdfs:subClassOf C
But very weak!
- Only explicit connected class and property hierarchies
- Inference (without negation), not validation!
- a prop b, a rdf:type C, prop rdfs:range D
- a rdf:type C and a rdf:type D
Notes: