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Re: [higgins-dev] IdAS changes proposal
Title: Re: [higgins-dev] IdAS changes proposal
Sergey,

My responses:
  1. agree
  2. agree
  3. Jim Sermersheim invented IFilter because we needed something and SPARQL wasn’t yet established. Now that it is, I wonder if we shouldn’t give it another look
  4. (4.1): short answer: no. Longer answer: cdm.owl is an attempt to approximate in owl concepts that cannot be directly operationalized in real RDF/OWL based systems. Only higgins.owl should be imported and used. Cdm.owl is just an attempt at explanation. It can be ignored. (4.2) A lot of OWL URLS end in .owl, but it isn’t a firm requirement or convention.

When you go to make these changes, it will be critical to load into your workbench every possible context provider that you can find so that you can fix them so that they don’t all break.

--Paul

On 9/23/09 12:07 PM, "Sergey Lyakhov" <slyakhov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul,
I suppose, cdm:entityId is redundant and we can use rdf:ID instead. As a result:
1.1. In this case IEntity.getEntityID() will retun rdf:ID.
1.2. In case of blank entity (previously known as a complex value) it should return null.
1.3. entityId attribute will be eliminated.
I suppose we need to do the following changes to IdAS interfaces to be compatible with CDM:
2.1. BlankEntity class has been eliminated from cdm.owl. So, I suppose we need to do the same for IdAS interfaces and replace IBlankEntity with IEntity (eliminate IBlankEntity interface).
 
Because there is no any difference between entity and complex value, we can define the following:
2.2. If Entity has been created by IContext.addEntity(entityType, entityID) method, it should always have entityID (should not be a blank entity). In other words, a unique value should be generated by a context and used as entityId, if no entityId passed.
2.3. If Entity has been created by IAttribute.addValue(URI) method, it should be a blank entity.
2.4. If Entity has been added by IAttribute.addValue(IAttributeValue) it should be the same type as passed entity. If passed entity is a blank entity, new blank entity should be created as a copy of passed, otherwise a reference to the existent (non blank) entity should be created.
2.5. When Entity is deleted, all its subentities which are a blank entity should be deleted too.
 
Also we need more flex IFilter API:
 
3.1. IFilter should be able to query both types of entities as blank as usual.
3.2. IFilter should be able to query a separate value (entity or simple value) of any nesting level, not only direct attributes of Entity.
 
Also I have some notes about CDM:
 
4.1. CDM.owl contains entityRelation and contextRelation object properties. Do we need to reflect them in IdAS interfaces?
4.2. Namespase of cdm.owl http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/ontologies/2008/6/cdm.owl ends with .owl. Is it correct?
Thanks,
Sergey Lyakhov

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