Issue 11103: Role name of superClass (odm-ftf)
Source: International Business Machines (Mr. Guo Tong Xie, xieguot(at)cn.ibm.com)
Nature: Revision
Severity: Significant
Summary: In section 10.4.1, the role name of superClass in ClassGeneralization is confusing. It might be changed to subClass
Resolution: During the June 27th telecon, participants agreed that superClass seems synonymous with RDFSsubClassOf, and that it should be changed to superClassOf, for consistency with other naming conventions in the metamodel.
Revised Text: Revised Text:
1. Replace Figure 10.4, page 46, with
 

2. In the second paragraph of section 10.4.1 under Description, replace "superClass" with "superClassOf", and "subclass" with "subClassOf", as follows:

The term superClassOf is used as the inverse of subClassOf. If a class C' is a superClassOf of a class C, then all instances of C are also instances of C'.

3. Under Associations in section 10.4.1, replace "superClass" with "superClassOf", as follows:

§	superClassOf: RDFSClass [0..*] in association ClassGeneralization - links a class to another class that specializes it (note that superClassOf is not an RDF concept).


Disposition:	Resolved

Actions taken:
June 20, 2007: received issue
January 15, 2008: closed issue
Discussion: 

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s is issue # 11103	Guo Tong Xie, xieguot@cn.ibm.com 


Role name of superClass 

In section 10.4.1, the role name of superClass in Clas