- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:28:58 +0000
- To: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- CC: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, "Web Ontology Language ((OWL)) Working Group WG" <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Michael Schneider wrote: > I also want these advantages in RDF, not only in functional syntax. > And for the aspect of semantical and computational complexity: The > way you suggest to encode negative assertions requires a pretty > bit of OWL language features (equivalence, intersection, nominals, > restrictions, and owl:Nothing). I believe a small rulebased sublanguage > of OWL-Full will easily be out of play here. Negative assertions seem to me to be well out of scope of the design of RDF, and unlikely to be implementable in an interioperable way in typical RDF systems. I think your 'want' here is unreasonable - if you really want this expressivity then take the OWL baggage. Jeremy
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