RE: [VM] Scoping Draft with questions to TF members $swbpd

Yes, that about right. I would not say: "There are two ways..." which
will likely be interpreted to mean we think there are only two. Instead
say: "We identify two ways..." and leave open the possibility of others.
Unless we can be confident that we think there really ARE only two.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Baker [mailto:thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de] 
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 1:13 AM
To: Uschold, Michael F
Cc: Thomas Baker; SW Best Practices
Subject: Re: [VM] Scoping Draft with questions to TF members $swbpd

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:44:36PM -0700, Uschold, Michael F wrote:
> As I understand it, your point is that OWL should be used
> "out of the box" to represent a thesaurus language directly --
> rather than using OWL first to represent some ad-hoc language
> of thesaurus relations and then, in turn, using that ad-hoc
> language to represent the thesaurus.
> 
> [MFU] NO NO!  I'm remaining agnoistic. The matter needs looking into.
> There may be benefits either way. Or there may be clear preferred
> choice. 

Mike,

Have I correctly understood that you mean to say:

    There are two alternative ways one might use OWL to
    express a thesaurus: One could use native OWL constructs to
    represent thesaurus relations.  Or one could use OWL first
    to represent a language of thesaurus relations and then use
    that relation language to represent the thesaurus itself.

If so, I'm thinking the VM Note might state the issue, present
a few arguments each way, and point off to any available
sources of emerging solutions.  Does that sound reasonable?

Tom

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