- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:10:24 -0500
- To: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, public-owl-dev@w3.org
At 3:05 PM -0500 11/14/06, Kendall Clark wrote: >On Nov 13, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Jim Hendler wrote: > >> >> Danny Ayers wrote: >>> I personally have doubts about the wisdom of making a significant >>> increment to OWL at this point in time because of potential impact on >>> the adoption of RDF and OWL, but am happy to defer to Kendall, Bijan >>> and co. on the point that there is real demand for certain features. >> >> I think he said that much better than I did! I think >>simplification is needed before pushing new functionality - I've >>said that many times, but then I spent two years saying it to the >>WG and failed there as well :-) Seriously, I have no object to >>new design work going on, but I think I'd be happier if Googling >>"-xxxxxxx filetype:owl" returned more hits before we began >>extending... > >I consistently fail to understand the import of that kind of claim, >as it seems to suggest that the public Semantic Web is the most >important thing. > >Doesn't that ignore the history of the Web itself, which, as we all >know, got a significant boost -- several such boosts, actually -- >from enterprise intranet adoption. But now for the Semantic Web the >equivalent of "intranet adoption" seems not only not to matter but >seems to be a problem. > >I don't get it. > >Lots more people are using OWL than are using it "on the public >Web". Isn't that a *good* thing? I think it is. :> > >Cheers, >Kendall point taken, but one would expect the uptake on the public side to be continuing while the other goes on - It is unclear to me why intranet adoption would favor more expressivity, woudl assume it to be about the same - a lot of the DOD projects I've been involved with are using relatively low expressivity w/large ABOX as well again, I think the clarity of messaging and the development of a simpler subset are both necessary to better OWL adoption - i don't claim sufficiency, but if I have to prioritize (and I do, at least w/respect to my time and that of my employees) then I would prefer to see us fill the simplicity gap before chasing the expressivity end - I think OWL DL/Full is expressive enough to hold most people for a while... -JH -- Prof James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Dept of Computer Science http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler AV Williams Bldg 301-405-2696 (work) Univ of Maryland 301-405-6707 (Fax) College Park, MD 20853 USA
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