- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:53:41 -0600
- To: "Jonathan Borden" <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
>pat hayes wrote: > >> > >> >Chris/Pat - I think you guys misunderstood me - I believe that all >> >of these things are OWL documents, but I'm concerned with a small >> >matter of usage. The way I see it, there are documents which are >> >clearly owl ontologies because they define terms and properties and >> >the like. There are also owl documents that only use those terms >> >> There are also RDF and RDFS documents that use those terms. So? I >> thought y'all *wanted* things to work out that way, that is supposed >> to be part of the layercake, right? So that people can use these >> languages together all nice and smoothly. That's why we went to all >> this trouble in the model theory.... Do you have a problem with this, >> now?? >> >> >and, in fact, there is no reason that there will be any trace of any >> >OWL vocabulary in those documents. >> >> Well then they won't be OWL documents. They will be be, say, RDF >> documents that use a vocabulary defined (yech, I hate that word) in >> another document that uses OWL. >> > >I'd like to suggest that (assuming document's which have legal RDF/XML >syntax); > >Documents served with a media type: application/rdf+xml > >1) are RDF documents >2) might be OWL documents > >Documents served with a media type: application/owl+xml > >1) are OWL documents >2) are RDF documents > >That is to say: an OWL document is an RDF document which is interpreted >according to the OWL semantics. Well, OK, but look: suppose I have a doc which contains nothing but RDF but the RDF uses terms that are defined in an OWL doc somewhere, and I want to know what media type I should say it has. Seems to me that with your scheme, it doesn't matter which I use. So why do we have the distinction? Whereas if we just say, xml means it looks like XML, rdf means it looks like RDF, and owl means it looks like OWL, then we are giving some useful syntactic information to a parser which might need to know it. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes s.pam@ai.uwf.edu for spam
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