- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:23:38 -0500
- To: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, Steffen Staab <sst@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 8:47 PM +0100 2/16/02, Frank van Harmelen wrote: >Steffen Staab wrote: > >> you find some material about >> >> On Standardization of the Web Ontology Language >> >> destined for the IEEE Intelligent Systems March/April >> Trends & Controversies Section in draft form at >> >> http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sst/is/WebOntologyLanguage/ > >I would really recommend that the WebOnt membership reads these columns. >Not because I happened to write one, but because it is a very good survey >of the different views on what should go into our language. > >Reading these 9 columns of 2 pages each will really help you form your >opinion on what should be in our language, and what not >(it sure did for me). > >It's also very amusing reading in places. > >Frank. > ---- > >PS: many thanks to Steffen for getting this material together, >and for making it available to us in preview form. I agree with Frank - when Steffen sent this to me and I read it, a lot of what has been in our recent mailing list messages became clearer to me because I understood where people are coming from. Note that my piece in there is not a neutral statement (but perhaps seeing what an anarchist I really am will help people understand that even my screeds on this list are relatively neutral for me :->) -JH -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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