Hi Bijan, just for my understanding: Bijan Parsia wrote: >> >> - drop anonymous individuals explicitly in OWL 1.1 DL (and perhaps say >> in some note that such individuals can be dealt with for all >> practical intents and purposes by Skolemization), or > > I find manual Skolemization to be a bit of a non-starter. People > migrating from RDF use BNodes rather freely, so I imagine pellet (for > example) will always have a mode wherein it treats them as skolem > constants. I also imagine that this will be the default setting. > Furthermore, that's certainly how I propose to deal with them when > querying with SPARQL/OWL. > what you mean is that if I write OWL1.1 DL statements (including, to refer to my previous concern, in some some of the simple tractable fragment dialect) in, God forbid, RDF/XML and/or Turtle, using _syntactically_ blank nodes, then a tool like Pellet would transform them on the fly into Skolem, ie, assign some unique URI-s in the process? And that is how conformance for tools would be defined for DL reasoners? This would certainly answers a concern I had. Thanks Ivan -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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