- From: Alan Rector <rector@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:14:31 +0000
- To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
All 1) I'd support Natasha's suggestion. I agree we can't come down from on high, but having just taught a course in using OWL, there are many common errors - in the sense that people don't actually succeed in representing what they intended to and can't understand the result. There are also some patterns that work well and produce modular ontologies, some that seem to work for a while and then break down (e.g. using universal restrictions rather than existential restrictions), and others that are just plain surprising. Judging frmo the semantic web list there are also questions about how to represent things that keep coming up again and again. We need to get a way of presenting issues and options for addressing them. We'll try to get some of the stuff out for comment. 2) The second thing I want is lists of tools with comments and ideas for new tools. This is quite deliberately self serving. We are working on new tools in conjunction with Stanford - see the OWL plugin on protege.stanford.edu-->plugins-->backends and the www.co-ode.org websites for the first results. We'll try to get some of the stuff out for comment. Regards Alan We are also looking for suggestions for tools and working on new tools in conjunction with Stanford - see the OWL plugin on protege.stanford.edu-->plugins-->backends and the www.co-ode.org websites -- Alan Rector Professor of Medical Informatics Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL,UK Tel +44 (0) 161 275 6188 Fax +44 (0) 161 275 6236
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