- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:13:03 -0400
- To: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 11:30 PM +0200 10/18/02, Frank van Harmelen wrote: >>ACTION Frank: collect suggestions for replacement name (for owl lite, >>large, and fast) > >We should get this ball rolling if we want to use the new names in >our soon-to-be-released documents. > >Candidates so far: > >OWL Light: ? >OWL fast: OWL/FOL-style >OWL large: OWL/RDF-style > >Please consume the appropriate chemical substances >(you could start with cafeine:-), >let your creativity flow, >and send me your suggestions. > >I will collect and report back. > >Frank. > ---- One thing I've learned in interacting with people about"The Web Ontology Language, OWL" is that on the web, being cute is a bad idea. People in the business world have little or no humor when it comes to this stuff. Let's try hard not to be "funny" and risk either the language being ignored as a toy or the language developers renaming it to what THEY think are good names. One software vendor, not participating in our group, suggested to me we should use OWL Lite OWL OWL Plus (or OWL Full) or OWL Lite OWL DL (or logic - but they thought that Description Logics had been around a while and were possibly a good marketing hook) OWL They felt that "lite" is actually a positive branding in the market (think about BBedit-Lite(tm), Eudora-Lite(tm), etc.) in fact, one idea is they might give away tools for OWL Lite to create a market, and then sell more capable "OWL" tools -- much as the other tool vendors give away Lite versions and sell better ones. They felt one of our versions should just be called OWL, it will make it easier for them to sell "OWL" projects - they didn't care too much which - if Fast Owl is called OWL, they would prefer the "bigger" one be called Plus or Full or something positive, if the other way (which they slightly preferred) they actually liked DL (or Description Logic) because they think that has some potential in the market theyr'e interested in This is a company that is thinking about entering the market w/some OWL stuff if they can convince their marketing people to go there -JH p.s. They said okay to share the above, but not to identify the company or the business model they will use. -- 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) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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