Re: Primer: Summary of updates

On Mittwoch, 15. April 2009, Christine Golbreich wrote:
> It has not that much changed since 8 April TC (except the Appendix
> part on new features that has been removed)

What else did you expect to change? I did not see any email from you 
suggesting other changes. But we will continue to address further comments in 
the remaining time, so feel free to send them.

However, quite some more things have changed, mostly in response to review 
comments that we received from other WG members. The diff for the week is at:

http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Primer&diff=22130&oldid=21657


> It has not  got more reviews from the appointed reviewers at this
> time, and the same limitations about its scope, length, etc. stand
> I'd liked to see a Primer that provides an in depth understanding of
> the OWL 2 semantics in order to guide users in correctly using it to
> perform reasoning tasks.

I am unsure what you have in mind here. Do you suggest to include sections 
that explain the content Direct Semantics and RDF-based Semantics documents? I 
agree with Uli that this would be beyond the scope of the Primer. Or do you 
suggest to extend the current informal explanations of the semantics of the 
constructs? In this case, it would be great if you could give an example of an 
explanation that you think needs more details.

>
> Thus I'm as reluctant as before.

Sorry to hear that.

Markus

>
> Christine
>
> 2009/4/15 Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>:
> > As far as I am concerned the primer is publishable in its current state.
> >
> > peter
> >
> >
> > From: Markus Krötzsch <mak@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> > Subject: Primer: Summary of updates
> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:11:45 +0200
> >
> >> There have been many updates to the Primer last week. Here is a summary
> >> of the main changes that were made in response to suggestions from WG
> >> members (including the discussion at the last telco):
> >>
> >> * "Changes from OWL 1" removed. As requested by several WG members, the
> >> Appendix about changes from OWL 1 has been deleted and references to
> >> NF&R have been introduced instead.
> >>
> >> * Anchors to individual features added. As requested by Jie, we have
> >> introduced fine-grained anchors for all features and updated the table
> >> at [1] accordingly. Note that several features that are still missing
> >> will be added for the next publication round. Editor notes in Primer
> >> point out such omissions (in particular, the section on advanced
> >> modeling with datatype properties, including facets, is not written yet,
> >> hence many "Data*" features are still missing; the final coverage here
> >> will be similar as for the "Object*" features). We also received
> >> comments from WG members warning us to introduce too many features, so
> >> there will be more discussion needed to find the right balance here.
> >>
> >> * Examples extended and improved. The correctness and style of the
> >> syntactic translations in examples has been improved based on a number
> >> of comments.
> >>
> >>
> >> There have, of course, been other changes, but we perceive the above to
> >> be most relevant for clearing the way towards publishing the Primer in
> >> this round (judging from the feedback we received).
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Markus
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Talk:Quick_Reference_Guide


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