Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist, 2nd Edition

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This chapter describes two example uses of the RDFS-Plus constructs. Both of these applications of RDFS-Plus make essential use of the constructs in RDFS-Plus, though often in quite different ways. These are real modeling applications built by groups who originally had no technology commitment to RDFS or OWL (though both were conceived as RDF applications). In both cases, the projects are about setting up an infrastructure for a particular Web community. The use of RDFS-Plus appears in the models that describe data in these communities, rather than in the everyday use in these communities. This chapter describes how modeling works in RDFS and OWL; hence the focus is on the community infrastructure of these projects. The first ...