Re: OWL working drafts - feedback sought

Jonathan Borden wrote:

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> I am not at all convinced that OWL-Lite would serve the needs of the medical
> community, which has a large use of DL e.g. SNOMED. I think that if OWL
> can't capture SNOMED etc. then it will fail this community in the long term,
> and well, thus my interest in this project will plummet.. I think that
> OWL-Full would likely capture SNOMED ... perhaps Ian who has alot of
> experience in medical ontologies can better answer this. In any case for my
> personal needs, any subset of OWL that can capture SNOMED (for example, not
> neccessarily exactly SNOMED, but at least something alot like it) would be
> fine by me ... this is my own line in the sand ... so short of some real
> evidence that OWL-Lite is able to capture, again for example, SNOMED, I
> strongly oppose stopping there.

Jonathan,

This could a very relevant example. Would it be possible for you to 
indicate what OWL features you need for representing SNOMED. We could do 
with more of these examples.

Guus

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