Re: Question regarding owl:DeprecatedClass and owl:DeprecatedProperty

Thanks Tom --

I had seen them in the documentation, but did not know how widespread 
their usage was, or what the impact of eliminating them would be.

This provides the fodder I needed to suggest that there is a real usage 
for them, and that in order to maintain backwards compatibility, even if 
some folks on the working group do not like them, we should maintain the 
vocabulary.  I was looking for confirmation when I sent the email last 
night, and I suspect that SKOS is not the only place they show up.

Best,

Elisa

Thomas Baker wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 12:45:14AM -0800, Elisa Kendall wrote:
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>>A question has come up in the OWL working group as to whether or not 
>>anyone uses these constructs.  There is a proposal on the table to 
>>eliminate these from the language in OWL "1.1", in fact.
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>>If anyone can cite examples of where these constructs have been used and 
>>provide guidance on whether or not there may be an impact if they are 
>>removed from the language, we would appreciate the reference.
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>They are used in the SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification of
>2005 [1,2], which also raises the issue of what to do with
>deprecated legacy properties and classes in the current
>revision of SKOS.
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>Tom
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>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-swbp-skos-core-spec-20051102/#deprecatedTitle
>[2] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core
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