FTF 4 Comments on OWL Reference Description

This page lists the comments received on the OWL Reference between FTF 3 and FTF 4. Specific issues raised are generally summarized, along with any resolution made to date, plans for such resolution, or editor's notes. Items without a resolution have not been addressed yet (and represent work in progress).

Peter Patel-Schneider (15 Jul 2002)
- easy issues addressed in WD; others still pending
Martin Bryan (8 Aug 2002)
- ability to extend enumeration
  - Ed: oneOf is intended to be closed, precluding extension
- need owl:equivalentTo
  - fixed
- duplicate rdf:IDs in examples
  - changed first rdf:ID from Asia to Africa
  - Ed: "Instances" section should be revisited/updated
Dave Beckett (22 Aug 2002)
- expand abstract
- links to WDs
- too much bold text
  - Ed: agree. Not yet fixed.
- "the index"
  - Ed: agree. Not yet fixed.
- rdf:List link
- cite XML Schema Datatypes
  - Ed: agree. Not yet fixed. May be affected by pending RDF Core decisions on datatypes.
- explain bullets
- tt consistency
- links
- South_America
  - fixed
- highlight ObjectRestriction, DatatypeRestriction
- inconsistent tt usage
- Notices
- OWL Lite link
- explain bullets
- subdivide section
- consolidate warnings
- ex:isPartOf
- Datatype Values
  - fixed
- changed?
  - changed indications replaced by Appendix D
- historical changes
  - Appendix D added
- inline notes
  - Ed: probably agree. Not yet fixed.
- owl-ex
- owl:cardinality
  - fixed
- un-numbered sections
- tt consistency
- URIrefs
  - Ed: agree. Not yet fixed.
Pat Emery (5 Sep 2002)
- pluralization
  - fixed
- Dublin Core
- disjointUnionOf
  - issue 5.21 is still open
- rdfs:Class vs. owl:Class
  - issue 5.20 is still open
- missing "object"
  - fixed
- semantic import
  - changed to "impact" for consistency
- equivalentTo and disjointUnionOf
  - issue 5.21 is still open
- between and among
  - Ed: Too many ands? Possibly change to just among. Not yet fixed.
Mike Uschold (10 Sep 2002)
- need summary of changes from DAML+OIL to OWL
  - Appendix D already added to Editor's Draft
Jeremy Carroll (18 Sep 2002)
- dc:creator
  - fixed
- importing terms
  - issue 5.20 is still open
- disjointUnionOf
  - issue 5.21 is still open

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