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A nomenclatural ontology for names (not concepts).
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Replace subclasses of negations with DisjointWith axioms #1

Closed balhoff closed 10 years ago

balhoff commented 10 years ago

Looking through NOMEN I saw a few cases where a class 'foo' is SubClassOf (not 'bar'). I think it would be more typical to instead just say 'foo' DisjointWith 'bar'. Besides being more common, this construct has meaning in OWL EL, while the negations do not.

Example: ICZN Based on Fossil Genus Formula http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NOMEN_0000206

I think negations are more useful when they are employed in EquivalentClass axioms.