- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:54:43 -0400 (EDT)
- To: jjc@hpl.hp.com
- Cc: public-owl-wg@w3.org
OK, then let's at least try to move forward on ISSUE-106: PROPOSED: Resolve ISSUE-106 by making the owl2 namespace the same as the owl namespace. peter From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com> Subject: Re: Proposal to resolve ISSUE-106 and ISSUE-109: namespaces for owl2 rdf/xml and xml/owl Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:15 +0100 > Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > I propose to resolve ISSUE-106 and ISSUE-109 by making the owl2 and > > owl2xml namespaces be the same as the owl namespace. > > Instead of the following namespaces > > owl http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# > > owl2 http://www.w3.org/2006/12/owl2# > > owl2xml http://www.w3.org/2006/12/owl2-xml# > > the situation would be > > owl http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# > > owl2 http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# > > owl2xml http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# > > Actually there would then be no need for separate namespace prefixes. > > > I've discussed these with a couple of colleagues. Here are some thoughts: > > 1) owl & owl2 the same is good. > > 2) we should state a policy for management of owl namespace in our > documents; and as an errata in the old document too. > > e.g. the meaning of terms in the owl namespace will not change, but > new terms may be added. (This would mean that if the meaning of say > owl:onProperty is changed in a new design then we would change the > spelling of onProperty and use a new name for the new meaning). > > 3) it would be a mistake to combine the owl namespace and the owl2xml > namespace. > > Rationale for 3: > a) potential confusion between owl/xml and rdf/xml > b) an RDF/XML doc using the single node construction might appear to > be in the owl/xml namespace, which would license the GRDDL transform > for owl/xml > c) the triple view and the functional syntax view of an ontology are > sufficiently different to merit different namespaces > Jeremy
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