Hi. I'm not sure what exactly your problem is, as this seems to
obviously be a class/subclass structure. And yes, an individual can be
in more than one class, ands indeed a class can be a subclass of more
than one class.
Can you be more precise about what exactly it is that is not working
for you?
Pat Hayes
On May 13, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Xu, Ningfeng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I am trying to build an OWL model for touring/entertainment
> related businesses. I have categorized these businesses into one
> category hierarchy like the following:
>
> Site(Root)
> +---WaterPark
> +---Resort
> .......
> +---AgriculturalField
> +---Orchard
> +---CollectionExhibition
> +---ExhibitionHall
> +---Memorial
> +---Museum
> +---SportsField
> +---Playground
> +---Stadium
> .......
>
> The goal is, given any category in the hierarchy, we can return all
> related businesses back. For example, given "Museum" as the
> category, we are supposed to return all museums; given
> "CollectionExhibition", all museums, memorials and exbitionHalls are
> returned.
>
> One thing is one business might have more than one services to
> offer. Here is an example: a resort has hotels, bars and some other
> regular facilities, it also has one indoor water park because of its
> hot spring water resource.. So this resort should be categorized
> into 2 different categories: "Resort" and "WaterPark". Given either
> "Resort" or "WaterPark" is chosen as the category, this resort
> should be returned as a match.
>
> The another one is that one business may fall into non-leaf
> categories, like "AgriculturalField" instead of "Orchard".
>
> Technically I would prefer:
>
> 1 Businesses are individuals of an owl:Class. Categories could be
> antything, if it supports reasoning. This is different from the
> Protege Pizza sample, while pizza are classes.
>
> 2 When adding new businesses, we only need to add new business
> individual(maybe we need to add more categories), and connect the
> new individuals to the categories.
>
> I have been trying different ways, but still no success.
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> Ningfeng
>
>
>
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