Classes in OWL
In RDFS, you can subclass existing classes…
… but, otherwise, that is all you can do
In OWL, you can
construct
classes from existing ones:
enumerate its content
through intersection, union, complement
through property restrictions
To do so, OWL introduces its own
Class
Ivan Herman
, W3C Head of Offices
© 1994-2004, W3C (MIT,ERCIM,Keio)
Edinburgh, 7 April, 2004
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