Re: Limitations of OWL 1.1 to RDF mapping

Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 9:52 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> 
>> The current OWL 1.1 Mapping to RDF Graphs draft [1] states
>>
>> "Not every OWL 1.1 ontology can be serialized in RDF. In particular, 
>> ontologies using the following features of OWL 1.1 cannot be serialized:
> 
> These statements should be read as qualified with "under the current 
> mapping".
> 
>> 1. punning and
>> 2. annotations on axioms."
>>
>> Could anyone please clarify the implications of this statement.  Is 
>> the plan of the group to leave it like this, or are changes to the OWL 
>> 1.1 spec underway to ensure that there will be a complete mapping to 
>> RDF Graphs?  Or, will we see an "OWL 1.0.9" that will be complete in 
>> RDF but with less features than 1.1?
> 
> The RDF mapping has lagged behind the others, but the plan is to extend 
> the mapping to cover these cases.

Presumably this will remain a purely syntactic mapping and the comment 
in your "Next Steps for OWL" paper [1]:

    "A triple syntax is being provided for OWL 1.1, syntactically
    compatible with the triple syntax for OWL DL. However, for the above
    reasons, this syntax could not be given a meaning compatible with the
    RDF meaning for triples ..."

will still apply?

Dave

[1] http://owl-workshop.man.ac.uk/acceptedLong/submission_11.pdf

Received on Friday, 17 November 2006 17:02:00 UTC