- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:31:13 -0400
- To: public-owl-wg@w3.org
Short intro as I'm in transit -- details on me/my background at http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler (or Google me, my life is an all too open book) I chaired the OWL WG that produced the first OWL and have a long history of involvement with Web ontologies (cf. SHOE) and the Semantic Web. I funded the development of OWL when I was at DARPA, I organized the ad hoc WG that created DAML+OIL, chaired the WOWG, and have been involved in many things aimed at pomoting OWL and its use. Given that, it may sound odd, but I think the biggest mistake we've made in OWL is not having an OWL Lite that was actually Lite. I will focus on helping to define a very minimal subset of OWL (maybe more of an RDFS+) that will meet the needs of the Web Application Developers getting involved in the RDF(S) world. I believe this sort of "on ramp" to OWL is critical to its acceptance and use in the greater Web community. In short, I want to concentrate on the 5-10% of OWL that can actually be making it big in the real world, rather than the 90+% that is there for future need and the few high end users. I will be willing to be involved in developing documents on this subset, as long as they don't resemble the travesty that is the polynomial subsets document (useless to most developers). I hope to be able to attend the f2f. Sent from my iphone "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein Prof James Hendler http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler Tetherless World Constellation Chair Computer Science Dept Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180
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