- From: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:57:52 +0200
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <0EF30CAA69519C4CB91D01481AEA06A00125F757@judith.fzi.de>
Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> But, after all, isn't the most distinguishing aspect of the >RDF/RDFS/OWL 1/2 vocabularies >> that they consist of URI/IRIs? They don't have much to do with RDF >graphs. So why not >> simply call them "IRI vocabularies"? This seems to at least avoid >confusion with our >> other syntaxes. > >I don't think that "IRI vocabulary" works at all. After all, names of >classes, etc., in OWL 2 are IRIs, so "IRI vocabulary" is even more >confusing than just "vocabulary". The most important aspect of the >vocabulary that is given special meaning in the RDF-based semantics is >that it is vocabulary in the RDF graph encoding for OWL 2 that is given >meaning by the RDF-based semantics, so "RDF" should be somewhere in the >term itself. Then what about... "OWL 2 RDF-Based Vocabulary"? :-) (The names for the different concepts are already so ugly, it doesn't matter to introduce yet another ugly name. But this one would at least perfectly match the chosen naming convention so far, and wouldn't have any of the different problems we have identified, I think.) Michael -- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider Research Scientist, Dept. Information Process Engineering (IPE) Tel : +49-721-9654-726 Fax : +49-721-9654-727 Email: michael.schneider@fzi.de WWW : http://www.fzi.de/michael.schneider ======================================================================= FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Az 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus =======================================================================
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