ISSUE-136: Can we clarify the names of property pair constraint types?

Property pair names

Can we clarify the names of property pair constraint types?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SHACL - Core

Raised by:

Holger Knublauch

Opened on:

2016-03-13

Description:

We currently use the following terms to represent relationships between properties:

sh:equals (?predicate has same values as the other property)
sh:notEquals (?predicate has different values...)
sh:lessThan (all values of ?predicate must be less than values of other property)
sh:lessThanOrEquals ( <= )

I believe it is too easy for a reader to assume that the values of these properties are not other properties but constants, e.g. "must be less than 10". But for that we already have sh:maxExclusive etc.

We should consider renaming to something like

sh:equalProperty
sh:notEqualProperty
sh:lessThanProperty
sh:lessThanOrEqualProperty

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1. Some issues that may be close to resolution (from holger@topquadrant.com on 2016-04-06)
2. Re: shapes-ISSUE-136 (Property pair names): Can we clarify the names of property pair constraint types? [SHACL - Core] (from holger@topquadrant.com on 2016-03-16)
3. Re: ISSUE-133: multi-occurrence use cases (from holger@topquadrant.com on 2016-03-14)
4. Re: shapes-ISSUE-136 (Property pair names): Can we clarify the names of property pair constraint types? [SHACL - Core] (from kcoyle@kcoyle.net on 2016-03-13)
5. shapes-ISSUE-136 (Property pair names): Can we clarify the names of property pair constraint types? [SHACL - Core] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2016-03-13)

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