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Re: changes to document overview (done)

From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <20090311.130025.218306936.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
To: alanruttenberg@gmail.com
Cc: sandro@w3.org, public-owl-wg@w3.org
From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: changes to document overview (done)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:11:17 -0400

> In this bit:
> 
> "OWL 2 QL enables conjunctive queries to be answered using standard
> relational database technology; it is particularly suitable for
> applications where relatively lightweight ontologies are used with
> very large datasets, and where it is useful or necessary to access the
> data directly via relational queries (e.g., SQL)."
> 
> my concerns would be that "very large datasets" could be misleading. I
> don't know that QL has been used with more than a few million rows and
> some people think of such as small. Also, I would put as coequal the
> large data sets and the need to use relational database. Therefore I
> would rephrase as:
> 
> "OWL 2 QL enables conjunctive queries to be answered using standard
> relational database technology; it is particularly suitable for
> applications where relatively lightweight ontologies are used to
> organize relatively large numbers of individuals or where it is useful
> or necessary to access the data directly via relational queries (e.g.,
> SQL)."
> 
> -Alan

Good change.

peter
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