- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:06:49 +0000
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- CC: "Web Ontology Language ((OWL)) Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > > One thing related to deprecation that *would* be useful would be to be > able to mark a class or property as being deprecated, and have the > effect be as follows: > > All axioms involving the class/property are ignored by a reasoner. > > In ontology development in OBI for instance, and in OBO, in general, > although one deprecates or obsoletes a class, one doesn't remove the > term from the ontology (by policy). In order to do this, one must > manually remove axioms. If one were able to leave the axioms in place, > but make them null and void it would be easier to both deprecate as well > as allow one to easily keep useful history, in the form of the logical > definition, around. > > -Alan > > To me this feels like a feature of an individual system, that would allow you to press one button to effectively erase all deprecated stuff. This doesn't seem like an appropriate behaviour to standardize. Jeremy
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