- From: Matthew Pocock <matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:06:43 +0000
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: "Boris Motik" <bmotik@cs.man.ac.uk>, "'Michael Schneider'" <m_schnei@gmx.de>, public-owl-dev@w3.org, evren@clarkparsia.com, matthew.horridge@cs.man.ac.uk
Just providing a data-point for this discussion. In our semantic web application, we need to be able to move fairly arbitrary bags of axioms through web services. The client and server side already know and share a base-level ontology, and they just send each other 'extra' axioms to clarify things. If we had to declare everything in every message, we would have to move the entire ontology every time we wanted to say anything. Having said that, in the shared ontology, we want everything declared so it is locked down tight. So, for our app we need both tight declarations and the ability to move arround axioms without them. Matthew
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