Re: Proposal to resolve ISSUE-81

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal to resolve ISSUE-81
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:28:58 +0000

> 
> 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 interoperable way in
> typical RDF systems. 

It would be interesting to see some views on what is the "scope of the
design of RDF", particularly in light of the work within the WG on RDFS
3.0 and the various statements that link N3 to RDF.

> I think your 'want' here is unreasonable - if you really want this
> expressivity then take the OWL baggage. 

What baggage would that be?

> Jeremy

peter

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