Re: [Fwd: SIG2 Amsterdam meeting - summary] from Frank van Harmelen on 2002-01-19 (www-archive@w3.org from January 2002)

From: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:30:55 +0100
To: GUIDO VETERE <gvetere@it.ibm.com>
CC: Nicola Guarino <Nicola.Guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it>, Mike Dean <mdean@daml.org>, www-archive@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C49AD4F.9DDAE0B2@cs.vu.nl>

GUIDO VETERE wrote:

> >>Finally, I insist on the need of introducing 'type' vs. 'role' as
> modifiers
> >>for class declarations. This distinction (that I learned from your works)
> >>woud be crucial for for many practical reasons. Have you any comment on
> >>that ?
> 
> >Of course we need these things. Type vs. role is certainly a very
> >important distinction for an ontology language.
> 
> Fine. We should work on this in the future. Is there room for a proposal in
> this direction ?

Of course. The webont group is open to suggestions from anybody,
in particular people who know what they are talking about,
which would qualify the both of you easily:-)

You could use me as a channel into the WG, or Guus Schreiber.

Thanks for your interest,

Frank. 
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Received on Friday, 18 January 2002 12:34:14 UTC