How should I model a relationship like "is contained in x with label y"?

Asked Mar 05 '15 at 14:03

Active Mar 26 '15 at 12:06

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I'm trying to represent the following real world situation:

"Document Alfred" contains the following annexes: "Document Zoey" as "Annex 1" and "Image 1" as "Annex 2"
"Document Betty" contains the following annexes: "Song Rocky" as "Annex A" and "Document Zoey" as "Annex B"

I expected this to be fairly straightforward, but instead I ended up in making a mess, even to the point of having:

A class "Document"
A class "AnnexionID"
An inverse functional object property "identifiesAnnexOf"
An inverse functional object property "identifiesAsAnnex"
Two inverse object properties for the latter two
An object property "hasAnnex", which is a subproperty of the transitive one "hasPart", plus its inverse property "isAnnexOf".

This looks over-complicated to me, but is it? I would expect this to be a typical design pattern. What is (are) the relevant best practices?

edited Mar 26 '15 at 12:06

Joshua Taylor

asked Mar 05 '15 at 14:03

AndreaB

This question has had very few views. Since Protege is used for OWL ontologies, I've added the [tag:owl] tag, which will probably help to get some more visibility. – Joshua Taylor Mar 26 '15 at 12:05
It doesn't have to be complex, although your question could use some clarification. Are you still online? – chris Jun 03 '15 at 06:47
Hi Chris, still here. I would be glad to clarify – AndreaB Jun 04 '15 at 08:15
And, BTW - thanks Joshua for correcting the tag! – AndreaB Jun 04 '15 at 08:16

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