- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:27:22 +0100
- To: Alan Wu <alan.wu@oracle.com>
- Cc: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, Carsten Lutz <clu@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>, OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On 9 Apr 2008, at 19:54, Alan Wu wrote: > Hi, > > Like your suggestions! :) I personally take 3) very seriously. In > my opinion, reasoning is seldom the ultimate goal when users build > a semantic application. It is the efficient query execution against > large amount of semantic data that adds a lot of value. > > A few major motivations/design principles for OWL2 R as I see it. > - expressive & highly scalable > - easily understandable set of rules > - friendly to triple oriented technology > - allows rules-based forward chaining [your point 2)] > - allows efficient query execution [your point 3)] > > I need a bit more time to merge them into one of two sentences. I'll just note that this has almost *nothing* to do (directly) with the usability. I mean, sure, you say "expressive" in the first line, but then *everything* else is computational or impelementational. That's fine, but scalability is a feature of *all* the fragments. Cheers, Bijan.
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