Re: proposal - Fragments redux (unifying the threads under Issues 75-80)

Carsten - can you justify the "many" in the statement "many people  
building real ontologies"  - I looked through a couple of the places  
where people have categorized ontologies, unfortunately none of them  
did it in terms of the specifics of EL++ so I couldn't determine.   
Currently, the vast majority found in the studies I cited earlier are  
OWL Full (although a lot of that is because they use rdfs:class) and  
RDFS



On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:11 PM, Carsten Lutz wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Jim Hendler wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:44, Carsten Lutz <clu@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jim Hendler wrote:
>>>> well, it's not so much motivated by computational properties,  
>>>> see out in the real world there's people who just implement fast  
>>>> engines and don't worry so much about the details...
>>> Sorry to object, but IHMO this approach is precisely why the  
>>> original
>>> OWL Lite was broken. And I understood we wanted to fix this?! We  
>>> should
>>> at least understand the computational properties of the fragments we
>>> are selecting.
>>
>> IMO, its because we worried too much about theory that lite is  
>> broken, but thats neither here nor there. I never said computation  
>> wasn't a factor to be taken into account, but it's also not the  
>> only factor to be taken into account.
>
> This I never said.
>
>> We are not writing research papers here, we are trying to help  
>> people build real web apps!
>
> No doubts, we must have an eye on both. Which is why I pointed out
> that EL++ is both theoretically well-understood *and* already adopted
> by many people building real ontologies. :)
>
> greetings,
> 		Carsten
>
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