An inconsistent class is one that
cannot possibly contain any individuals as members. The reasoner can automatically
determine the classification hierarchy which is called an inferred hierarchy.
Development of an Ontology to Improve Supply Cha n Management
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RDF was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as an XML-based
framework for describing and sharing metadata, designed to be applicable for sharing
Web metadata, and creating machine-processable data on the Internet (Klyne &
Carroll, 2004). To ensure extendibility RDF assumes an open world in which anyone
can make statements about any resource. RDF is designed to represent information
in a minimally constraining, flexible way.
RDF represents resources in a basic structure called a triple; these consist of a
subject, predicate, and object. The RDF triple is used to state that the relationship
indicated by the predicate exists between a subject and object. RDF uses Uniform
Resource Identifier??™s (URI) to identify resources.
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