- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:17:00 -0400
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: alanruttenberg@gmail.com, public-owl-wg@w3.org
I find the RDF mapping document to still be fairly confusing. As well as the technical issues that Jeremy is raising, and the many typos (which can be fixed with a good edit) my primary objection is that by the end of the document I still cannot find a table of what terms are actually in the language and what aren't. I also find a lot of terms added as syntactic sugar that are not made clear as to whether they are necessary or just provided for convenience - for example is x owl11:subObjectPropertyOf y the same as x a owl:Object Property. x rdfs:subPropertyOf y. I think issues like this are far more important to the OWL community I am representing (who are using bits and pieces of OWL as needed in their RDF apps, and want to be consistent with the spec while minimizing the number of terms they support) than are the deeper semantic issues. To put it another way - the intro to these documents mentions qualified cardinality restrictions as one of the key new functionalities added to OWL 1.1 -- can someone point me to the point in this document which mentions how to write such a thing in RDF? I realize that this is not meant to be a reference document, but without some sort of reference document, or significantly better examples of what the RDF produced for the important new OWL properties looks like, I see this document adding confusion for little current purpose. -Jim H.
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