- From: Sebastian Rudolph <rudolph@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:41:12 +0200
- To: rhm@pioneerca.com
- Cc: public-owl-comments@w3.org
Dear Richard,
Thank you for your comment
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Apr/0066.html
>
on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
In order to avoid any possible confusion we have added some text to
the OWL 2 Primer that clarifies the meaning of class and the
correspondence with concept (see <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Primer&diff=23518&oldid=23517
>).
As a historical remark, the use of "class" in OWL 2 comes from its
prior use in related representation systems. RDF uses "class" (as
opposed to "concept" or another term). The original version of OWL
uses "class" to be compatible with RDF.
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Regards,
Sebastian Rudolph
on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
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