Steve Harris wrote: > On 1 May 2009, at 08:59, Ivan Herman wrote: >> It is not clear to me (lack of my technical knowledge!) whether Bijan's >> SPARQL/OWL proposal covers both semantics of OWL or not. OWL DL is, in >> many respect, a loose sub thing to OWL Full, so it might, but we have to >> be very explicit (at charter time, too!). So it would be good to put my >> mind at ease:-) How would we handle the others like RDFS? > > I'm not really hot on the logical underpinnings, but I don't remember > running into any substantial problems when applying SPARQL over RDFS. > There are some questions around how you handle certain queries that > theoretically have infinite solutions, but there are pragmatic > workarounds for those. I'm confident that whatever solution SPARQL/OWL > proposes here will be applicable to SPARQL/RDFS. And that is what my intuition also tells me! But I would still prefer some reassuring words from Bijan:-) We also have to be very careful on the 'packaging' of these, and make it very clear from the start that we try to cover the whole palette of RDFS+OWL. ivan > >> I presume service descriptions play an important role here. > > I would imagine so. > > - Steve > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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