[Seavox] Ontology design

[John Graybeal]

As noted on the other list, the additional entry appears to be duplicative with what an inference engine will automatically produce.  Save work, keep things clean, keep it a true hierarchy.  Also makes your work infinitely more reusable by others.

john

At 10:14 AM +0100 6/25/07, Roy Lowry wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I'm currently populating a parameter discovery ontology to serve a couple of projects and have a quandry.  Consider the example where I have three terms:
>
>pigments
>chlorophylls
>chlorophyll-a
>
>Do I encode this as a true hierarchy, e.g.
>
>pigments has-narrow-match chlorophylls
>chlorophylls has-narrow-match chlorophyll-a
>
>or as a relationship matrix with the additional entry
>
>pigments has-narrow-match chlorophyll-a
>
>Anyone any experience or opinions on this?
>
>Cheers, Roy.
>
>
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