Re: Arcs

Hi Benjamin,

[...]
> The idea is to
> annotate the existing association signatures where an association
> signature is, in it's simplest form the tuple (association type, role
> type 1, role type 2). This could/should be extended by scope, but not
> by reifier, because the reifier is about the association instance.
> Also, the primary idea was mostly to define names for arcs, similarily
> to how Ontopia models the directed naming of associations: a name
> attached to the association type scoped by one of the role types,
> depending on the direction.

Butter bei die Fische.

Can you provide an example?

    sean child-of john

gives the following assoc:

    child-of(child: sean, father: john)

and the following arc:

    arc:arc(arc:from: child, arc:type: child-of, arc:to: father)

and the inverse arc:

    arc:arc(arc:from: father, arc:type: child-of, arc:to: child)


a) How do the two arcs help me / an app to choose a name based on a
particular perspective/direction (given that I attach a  name with a
scope to it (which theme should I use?))
b) How do the arcs help an app to translate the "child-of" association to RDF?

Thanks in advance best regards,
Lars
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