- From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:27:18 +0100
- To: OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
On Jul 2, 2008, at 1:49 AM, Michael Schneider wrote: [snip] > Hm, I feel a bit uncomfortable, because I cannot easily tell that I > understand the whole issue here (got lost in the discussion). I'm totally lost too :) > So I have to > ask: Is it that the RDF mapping would produce fresh "random" URI > names as > the root node of an axiom annotation? That's my understanding. > Sure, if there are two RDF graphs representing the same axiom > annotation, > but having different URIs as their root nodes, then the one > annotation graph > does not entail the other one. But what I was about in my original > private > mail to Alan was that this situation isn't avoidable in OWL Full, > anyway. It > definitely will be possible for OWL 2 Full authors to write an > ontology such > as [snip] I thought the key differences is that while this is *possible* (with explicit authorial effort) in OWL Full, the current proposal would make it happen *every time* you serialized a document. That is, the very *same* instance of an ontology, serialized twice, would end up with different names for the very same axiom. That's a lot stronger than the mere possibility of deliberate variant naming of structurally identical axioms by users! Cheers, Bijan.
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