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Re:Taxonomy Is Hard by PaulHoule on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:42AM (#33421114)
What I realized the other day is that the property restrictions in OWL are a lot like the options you see on a typical search interface, say,

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/

It is hidden in plain site, for instance if you read this

https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#Restriction

you might not realized that there are some other axioms documented elsewhere in the standard that let you query on "less than", "greater than", "matches a regex", etc. Instead of fighting with Protege or writing turtle you should be able to compose queries out of restrictions plus complements, unions and intersections the way you snap together a program in Scratch, but somehow the idea that OWL works as a query language (logically define a class in terms of its properties) had eluded people completely.

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