needs for roundtripping

My view is that the need for roundtripping is even greater because
RDF/XML is the only normative exchange syntax.

Consider, for example, a source (e.g., a GUI for ontology building) that
generates ontologies in some syntax other than RDF/XML, in particular
one that is much closer to the abstract or functional-style syntaxes.
It is vital that these ontologies can be translated back into a form
close to the one in which they were generated.

Consider, for example, changing an ontology using a GUI that internally
utilizes a non-RDF/XML syntax and then putting the revised version back
up on the web.   Round-tripping helps in minimizing the number of
changed triples, allowing easier detection of what has changed.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research


From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: ISSUE-2 (allDisjoint-RDF): No syntax for AllDisjoint in RDF mapping
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:25:19 -0500

> I've never understood why roundtripping would be positive, some day  
> someone will explain this to me (since the original document is still  
> on the Web and has a URI, I can always find it, so why do I need to  
> reproduce it) ... but thst's not my point

[...]

> I am now on the advisory board of the EOL project where exactly this  
> issue has come up again --- so since I'm not chair and am allowed to  
> push an opinion - I think we MUST include a construct to avoid having  
> to make the N^^2 statements in the RDF/XML documents (Which remain  
> the normative exchange syntax for OWL)
>   -JH

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