Re: Layering on the Semantic Web

In an off-line email message, Jim wrote:

> I'm curious about losing RDF-schema compatibility, of all of them, that seems
> like the simplest to preserve (esp. as we can still influence
> rdf-schema if minor changes to it fix this)

Two reasons for only partial compatability:
- syntactic: we're not sure if we can organise the XML syntax to "include" a/some/all of the RDF Schema serialisations. 
- semantic: as you know, the RDF Schema model contains some oddities (classes as members of classes, etc). We might want to make the OWL meta-model simpler. 

Frank.
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