A vote for the 1 letter names:
On May 20, 2008, at 6:24 PM, Melanie Courtot wrote:
> like the proposal with one letter from Bijan at http://
> lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2008Apr/0327.html
> OWL E
> OWL D
> OWL R
> would maybe modify to OWL2E, OWL2D and OWL2R.
>
> I think it's short enough to allow sub flavors like OWL2R-DL and
> OWL2R-Full.
-Alan
On Apr 28, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Bijan Parsia wrote:
>
> On 28 Apr 2008, at 17:02, Ian Horrocks wrote:
>>
>> OK - but can you suggest some other names?
>
> Not really. I personally can live with the current names...I was
> just trying to report the state of play as I understand it. Nameing
> these suckers is damn hard, I'm finding.
>
> EL++ OWL-Ont
> DL Lite OWL-Rel (for relational?)
> OWL-R OWL-Rul
>
> These have the advantage of being somewhat consistent and equi-
> repellent. The disadvantage is that they are very repellent :(
>
> I guess we could try single letters across the board:
>
> OWL E
> OWL D
> OWL R
>
> These all potentially scan:
>
> OWLy
> OWLed
> OWLer
>
> But, that sucks too :(
>
> One could try modeling names on DLP:
>
> OWL EDL (for EL++ DL)
> OWL RDL (for relational DL)
> OWL DLP (for description logic programs)
>
> Or
> EON (Existential ONtologies, conflicts with the EON workshop)
> RON (Relational ONtolgoies, conflicts with people I know)
> FON (Forwardchaingingrules/Full ONtologies, could be fun)
>
> Ok, I got *nothin*. Sorry. I can live with the current names, I guess.
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.
>
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