- From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:37:55 -0400
- To: semantic-web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Regarding the recent W3C member submission http://www.w3.org/Submission/2010/04/ the mechanisms described -- for adding assertions, deleting assertions, making queries, specifying which entailments or entailment regimes should be used, etc. -- seem very much like mechanisms that are needed in general in the RDF world. Unfortunately, the submission makes it sound like these features would only be available to OWL, and that would be a shame. I hope that this work will be folded into requirements for current or future SPARLQ and SPARUL-related work that would enable such mechanisms to be used by *all* semantic extensions[1] of RDF, rather than being relegated (or limited) to OWL. Any OWL-specific needs could then be layered on *top* of the general RDF mechanisms, rather than having a second set of mechanisms. 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#DefSemanticExtension -- David Booth, Ph.D. Cleveland Clinic (contractor) http://dbooth.org/ Opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Cleveland Clinic.
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