- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:22:53 -0400
- To: Michael Smith <msmith@clarkparsia.com>
- Cc: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, public-owl-wg Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
I don't think the issue is resistance, I think the issue is change -- currently Google finds 59000 hits for the phrase "OWL Full" - I suspect a lot of those won't be changed, so both Full and FL would be out there to cause confusion -- or if you want something more specific - Dean Allemang and I have a book which refers to OWL DL and OWL Full -- we'll eventually do a second edition (we hope) to include the OWL 2 stuff, but till then, the book's not about to be republished (not is the van Harmelen book, or any of the 5-6 other Sem Web books out there) -- so you would add tremendous confusion to change "full" to "FL" just so that there's a resonance in names -- I definitely think this is one of those "backwards compatibility" issues your charter mandates be considered -- I understand why it would be nice to have two-letter names for everything, but I don't think it overcomes the barrier -- naming new profiles consistently is great, but changing old ones is confusing and incurs real cost in both OWL adoption (more confusion = less use) and in real dollars - remember that change has economic consequences for real people in the real world. -JH p.s. Note that if the group decided to go with 4 letter names, so Full would stay the same but DL would become, say, "DLog" then I would have the same complaint - this isn't a Full vs. DL issue, it's a "be very conservative on change" issue On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:01 +0100, Ian Horrocks wrote: >> Jim Hendler has pointed out that there may be some resistance to >> renaming existing languages (i.e., Full) given that many books and >> papers have already been published using those names, and companies >> have tools that already claim to support them. > > OWL FL might be a two letter name for Full that causes less > resistance. > -- > Mike Smith > > Clark & Parsia > > "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?." - Albert Einstein Prof James Hendler http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler Tetherless World Constellation Chair Computer Science Dept Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY 12180
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