Re: UFDTF Metamodeling Document

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: UFDTF Metamodeling Document
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:14:55 -0500

> On Nov 30, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> > From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
> >> Agreed, however does it make sense for there to be a storage
> >> mechanism for OWL specifically, rather than building on whatever
> >> storage mechanism is chosen for RDF?
> >>
> >> -Alan
> > Absolutely.  Tools need to be able to store OWL axioms and facts as
> > entities different from RDF triples.  In fact, building an OWL
> > structural specification on top of an RDF storage methodology is
> > probably the wrong thing to do.
> 
> Because...
> 
> -Alan

Because OWL axioms need to be divorced from triples that a needed to
encode them into RDF otherwise these triples end up complicating the
design and workings of tools that reason with the axioms.  

peter