Re: ISSUE: annotations

I propose that OWL users wanting to annotate their ontologies with no 
formal semantic entailments be recommended to use XML Comments.

I propose that annotations within the RDF graph in OWL Lite and OWL DL be 
given the same formal semantic force as in RDFS.

A way that this can be done is articulated in [1] (under heading "OWL 
Lite/DL Entailment between RDF/XML documents").

I propose that annotation properties be declared using an explicit type of 
owl:DatatypeProperty or owl:ObjectProperty, that they be syntactically 
restricted as in [1] to not interact with other aspects of the ontology, 
and that the production for individual in the abstract syntax be modified 
accordingly [i.e. the explicit {annotation} in the rule is no longer needed].

Jeremy

[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2003Jan/0523.html

Received on Friday, 7 February 2003 10:44:32 UTC