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Re: The semantics of rdfs:label

From: <danbri@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:27:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <40740.163.117.131.32.1126715243.squirrel@homer.w3.org>
To: "Ian Davis" <iand@internetalchemy.org>
Cc: danbri@w3.org, "Christopher Welty" <welty@us.ibm.com>, "Lars Marius Garshol" <larsga@ontopia.net>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org, public-swbp-wg-request@w3.org

> danbri@w3.org wrote:
>>
>> The problem I have with this, is that the Full version is somewhat
>> hidden away from crawlers and GUIs, who may not yet have the smarts
>> to understand this idiom and follow (for example) an rdfs:seeAlso from
>> the RDF you'd find at the namespace to the unexpurgated edition.
>
> Would it be better if the owl-full version was available from
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ and a new sub-property of seeAlso used to refer
> to the DL version for those that care. Agents that don't understand the
> property can follow the seeAlso and incorporate the OWL DL safely into the
> OWL Full version.

That would be my preference, but I'm not sure the decision should be
taken on a vocab-by-vocab basis. OWL Full systems I suspect are more
likely to be comfortable with Web crawling. I expect it wouldn't be
easy to get consensus on this, as the decision could be seen as
answering the question "which is the default/main way of using OWL,
and which is the niche interest specialist version? ...".

cheers,

Dan
Received on Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:27:32 GMT

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