- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:12:50 +0100
- To: OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Thinking more about profiling, I moved my preliminary explanatory text into the primer: http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Primer#OWL_Profiles (So review and ednotes notes format nicely now.) Unfortunately, even the current, fairly abbreviated text bloats the primer quite a bit. And not just with page count, but with a mass of concepts and details that seem to make the document much less approachable. Just the headers in the outline are a bit much. But I think bloating up the existing profiles document is also not a great idea. So, we could have more subtle material throughout the primer (including modes to see each example "in" a fragment). I might do some of that anyway. I think having a separate fragment for each primer is really bad (I worry about document bloat and this would lead to very complicated interactions). My other thought was to split the profiles document into a document per profile. Here's a first, very simplistic experiment for EL++ http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Standalone_Profile:_EL If we went down that route, I would advocate a very rigid structure, esp. for the intro/background. One nice thing about this is that it makes adding additional profiles (inside or outside the W3C) much easier. One just replicates the basic structure and level of detail of one of these. Thus, if we (or an OWLED taskforce) wanted to add a HornSHIQ profile, we'd copy, fold, spindle, and mutilate an existing profile document. I'm not 100% sure I favor this, but it is one possibility. Cheers, Bijan.
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