- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:32:44 +0200
- To: W3C OWL Working Group <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <47FC8D3C.5040608@w3.org>
(This may have to be raised as a more formal ISSUE. Also: it is _not_ my intention to get this problem solved before the upcoming publication round!) The current OWL-R-Full does not include 'axiomatic triples' to be added to the resulting graph. What I mean is to add triples like (owl:FunctionalProperty,rdfs:subClassOf,rdf:Property) (rdfs:subPropertyOf,rdfs:domain,rdf:Property) etc. See for the RDF Semantics for a bunch of those in RDFS, and Horst's paper on pD* for their OWL equivalents. I am not saying we must have those; this is clearly touching upon the issue whether the core RDF/RDFS/OWL vocabulary is an object of discourse or not in OWL-R-Full. We _could_ therefore, explicitly say that those axiomatic triples are not defined in OWL-R-Full. That would mean that some (valid) RDFS or OWL Full entailements are not meaningful in OWL-R-Full, ie, OWL-R is also defined as a syntactic restriction v.a.v. OWL 2 Full and not only OWL 2 DL. Again, I am not saying this is wrong. But the decision should be made explicitly and documented in the profile document as well. Alternatively, we could add those axiomatic triples for OWL-R-Full (but then the relationship between OWL-R-Full and OWL-R-DL becomes less clear...) 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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