- From: Rinke Hoekstra <hoekstra@uva.nl>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:25:37 +0100
- To: Christine Golbreich <cgolbrei@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C OWL Working Group <public-owl-wg@w3.org>, Evan Wallace <ewallace@cme.nist.gov>
Hi Christine, Thanks for the update! I just noticed that the NF&R refers only to the direct semantics, and not to the RDF-based semantics. Is this intentional? Best, Rinke ----------------------------------------------- Drs. Rinke Hoekstra Email: hoekstra@uva.nl Skype: rinkehoekstra Phone: +31-20-5253497 Web: http://www.leibnizcenter.org/users/rinke Visit: Kloveniersburgwal 48, room ET1.09c Leibniz Center for Law, Faculty of Law University of Amsterdam, PO Box 1030 1000 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands ----------------------------------------------- On 18 mrt 2009, at 08:51, Christine Golbreich wrote: > Hi all > > A revised version of NF&R is available at [1]. There has been so many > changes that it's difficult to list all. > > A lot of changes, additions, or rewording have been done at different > places to address both internal and external specific comments (mixed > in LC). Thus, the document has been extended at many places to better > document the motivation for the new features of OWL 2 see for example > [4]. Furthermore, a new Section 2 (see below) has been added to better > motivate/clarify some design choices (e.g. OWL/XML etc.). > > - the document has been restructured, and is now organized into 3 > sections: > 1. 'Features & Rationale' describes the main features that are new > in OWL 2, numbered from 1 to 15, and more minor differences from OWL 1 > that manifest themselves in the structural specification [OWL 2 > Specification] of OWL 2. > 2. 'Other Design Choices and Rationale' motivates other important > design choices, mainly regarding OWL 2 syntax. > 3. 'Illustrative Use Cases' summarizes via tables the links between > use cases, requirements, and examples used for illustration of new > features. > At end, an Appendix provides an abstract of each Use Case and its > reference in an Appendix. > > - the grammatical constructs have been removed and replaced by an > informal syntax (asserted to be 'informative'). > (however, if the WG decides to have them but as optional, it's still > easy to activate a buttom to hide/show them) > > - the full typed syntax has been re-introduced > > - there are 'warnings' at many place to address "normativity" > concerns. > > - the purpose of UCs has been better explained. We insist more on the > fact that the given UCs are illustrative (used to illustrate a > specific feature of OWL 2) and that they are only a few among many > that motivated the extensions. [2] and the tables that summarize the > UCs are better commented. UC#3 has been changed. The references of the > UCs are now separated from the other ones and included in the > Appendix. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale > [2] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale#Illustrative_use_cases > [3] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale#Use_Cases_.2F_Features_.2F_Examples > [4] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/ > New_Features_and_Rationale#F6:_Reflexive.2C_Irreflexive.2C_Asymmetric > > Regards > > -- > Christine
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