[topicmapmail] Equivalence in TM and OWL/RDFS

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

would be great, if anyone could help me out with a definition I try to 
accomplish both using TM/XTM and OWL. I am not sure, if this question is 
appropriate for this list, hence, I'd be thankful for references to a 
more fitting mailing list for my question or the OWL part, too.

The scenario: I want to denote equivalence in the ontology.

For OWL I know, that we have a property owl:equivalentClass. Is there a 
similar thing in XTM or a common way of modelling it?

Further, being equivalent in my point of view does not mean to be the 
same, so I assume that two classes/topics may be equivalent but have 
different naming in properties, roles, relations etc. Does anyone know 
of a way how to express this in either OWL or TM/XTM? Will restrictions 
do the job for OWL?

Thanks,
Stefan

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Research Assistant
Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University