- From: Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra@uva.nl>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 18:01:14 +0200
- To: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-owl-wg Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>, Michael Smith <msmith@clarkparsia.com>, Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
On 6 aug 2008, at 17:47, Ian Horrocks wrote: > I can see the point, and I would have no objection to using the 2- > letter solution for all the languages *except* OWL Full (which would > stay as OWL Full) -- OWL DL is already 2-letter compliant. +1 -Rinke > Ian > > > On 6 Aug 2008, at 15:22, Jim Hendler wrote: > >> I don't think the issue is resistance, I think the issue is change >> -- currently Google finds 59000 hits for the phrase "OWL Full" - I >> suspect a lot of those won't be changed, so both Full and FL would >> be out there to cause confusion -- or if you want something more >> specific - Dean Allemang and I have a book which refers to OWL DL >> and OWL Full -- we'll eventually do a second edition (we hope) to >> include the OWL 2 stuff, but till then, the book's not about to be >> republished (not is the van Harmelen book, or any of the 5-6 other >> Sem Web books out there) -- so you would add tremendous confusion >> to change "full" to "FL" just so that there's a resonance in names >> -- I definitely think this is one of those "backwards >> compatibility" issues your charter mandates be considered -- I >> understand why it would be nice to have two-letter names for >> everything, but I don't think it overcomes the barrier -- naming >> new profiles consistently is great, but changing old ones is >> confusing and incurs real cost in both OWL adoption (more confusion >> = less use) and in real dollars - remember that change has economic >> consequences for real people in the real world. >> -JH >> p.s. Note that if the group decided to go with 4 letter names, so >> Full would stay the same but DL would become, say, "DLog" then I >> would have the same complaint - this isn't a Full vs. DL issue, >> it's a "be very conservative on change" issue >> >> >> On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Michael Smith wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:01 +0100, Ian Horrocks wrote: >>>> Jim Hendler has pointed out that there may be some resistance to >>>> renaming existing languages (i.e., Full) given that many books and >>>> papers have already been published using those names, and companies >>>> have tools that already claim to support them. >>> >>> OWL FL might be a two letter name for Full that causes less >>> resistance. >>> -- >>> Mike Smith >>> >>> Clark & Parsia >>> >>> >> >> "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 >> >> >> >> > ----------------------------------------------- Drs. Rinke Hoekstra Email: hoekstra@uva.nl Skype: rinkehoekstra Phone: +31-20-5253499 Fax: +31-20-5253495 Web: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/users/rinke Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands -----------------------------------------------
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