new comment: reification vocab from Jeremy Carroll on 2009-05-12 (public-owl-comments@w3.org from May 2009)

From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 15:22:11 -0700
To: <public-owl-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <003101c9d350$183041f0$4890c5d0$@com>

We did not reach consensus within TopQuadrant about the merits or otherwise of using reification for annotations.

However, we believe it is an error to duplicate the RDF reification vocabulary in the OWL namespace.
The well-established convention is that one reuses the RDF vocabulary. The apparent motivation is because RDF reification is seen as semantically problematic. These issues are not addressed by using the same vocabulary in a different namespace.

We request that you use rdf:subject, rdf:predicate and rdf:object in place of owl:subject etc.

Jeremy Carroll, AC Rep. TopQuadrant, Inc

Received on Tuesday, 12 May 2009 22:22:54 UTC