- From: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 23:19:13 +0200
- To: public-lod@w3.org
- Cc: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
On Tuesday 12 May 2009, John Goodwin wrote: > I know there is a new SPARQL working group - is there much talk of > OWL inference + SPARQL going on there? Yes, there is. I may have come across in the minutes as an "OWL skeptic", since I was the only one opposing the view that the group should spend time on it but really, I'm not. It is just that we've used some pretty simple reasoning in a commercial solution, and we didn't really get the performance we wanted and thus concluded it is still hard to sell, and therefore other matters should be prioritized. I think that the whole range of ontologies, from the informal SKOS thesauri to the formal rigorous OWL Big-O ontologies makes sense for different things, but that one should be aware of strengths and weaknesses for each application, and that some things may take a couple of years to "get there". Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Programmer / Astrophysicist / Ski-orienteer / Orienteer / Mountaineer kjetil@kjernsmo.net Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC
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