- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:10:58 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
> >Could you elaborate? I don't see how it's easier for toolbuilders >to look for a property value than a class. > Our current tools work by quickly scanning a file looking for the owl:ontology statement - if there, we know this is an ontology and then parse it with appropriate semantics. If we have three specific terms, it isn't much worse to scan for any of the three. On the other hand, if we assume that owl:ontology is subclassible and you could have <:foo rdf:about=""> <owl:imports bar:> </foo> then we would have to either always try inferencing or have some way of knowing the possible values. As I said, I don't feel strongly about this one, just thought this would mean that the term "owl:ontology" would always be in an ontology file. -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) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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