- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:20:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: alanruttenberg@gmail.com
- Cc: conrad.bock@nist.gov, public-owl-wg@w3.org
From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: UFDTF Metamodeling Document Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:14:55 -0500 > On Nov 30, 2007, at 4:37 AM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> > >> Agreed, however does it make sense for there to be a storage > >> mechanism for OWL specifically, rather than building on whatever > >> storage mechanism is chosen for RDF? > >> > >> -Alan > > Absolutely. Tools need to be able to store OWL axioms and facts as > > entities different from RDF triples. In fact, building an OWL > > structural specification on top of an RDF storage methodology is > > probably the wrong thing to do. > > Because... > > -Alan Because OWL axioms need to be divorced from triples that a needed to encode them into RDF otherwise these triples end up complicating the design and workings of tools that reason with the axioms. peter
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