- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:12:23 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Another worry re terminology is that we have two Semantic Web working >groups. One group calls RDF schemas .....and what are those, exactly? I have never known what this term is supposed to mean. Do you mean an RDF graph containing RDFS vocabulary? >'schemas', the other calls them >'ontologies'. To date we've not really used the latter term in RDF Core >specs. Right, and let's not. >I personally don't like it, but that's not important. What is >importnat is terminological consistency at least within the RDF-based >corner of W3C's work. I'm stumped as to what we do about that. People will >ask us (of some RDF/XML schema that uses WebOnt machinery) whether it is >an 'ontology' or a 'schema'. Maybe we don't need an answer, but it does >seem a bit odd to not know collectively (in WebOnt + RDF Core) what we >think we're talking about. Editorial suggestions / contribs on this >welcomed... Both terms have weeds attached that cause confusion. Maybe we should use a new term altogether so that *we* can say what it means., something bland like 'module'. (??) Or what wrong with just talking about RDF graphs? Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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