Objective 4.6: additional semantic knowledge

I appreciate the effort to include OWL in the objectives section, but I
feel the current approach to these other semantic layers is a bit
short-sighted. Some people think RDFS is neat, I think description
logics (and OWL-DL) are pretty spiffy, and others like rules languages
like SWRL. In time people may well come up with other ways of encoding
knowledge. Importantly, only a very few of these languages/technologies
have "structure" that can be sensibly and canonically realized in RDF.

I would simply recommend that we really address the "RDF as data model
for the semantic web" notion on which all these other technologies are
predicated. Some suggested text:

4.6 Additional semantic knowledge
It should be possible for knowledge encoded in other semantic languages,
such as RDFS, OWL, and SWRL to affect the results of queries about RDF
graphs.

Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2004 19:54:19 UTC