- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:29:13 -0500 (EST)
- To: alanruttenberg@gmail.com
- Cc: public-owl-wg@w3.org, tredmond@stanford.edu
From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ACTION-264: Discuss imports with Tim Redmond. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:34:10 -0800 [...] >>> 2) He notes a case in the aforementioned zip file use case that can >>> not be resolved at all: >>> >>> Two ontologies in the zip file ("headers" below) >>> >>> ontology foo versionuri bar >>> ontology foo versionuri bar1 >>> >>> The document that is loaded has the following: >>> import foo >>> >>> There is no way to determine which of the two documents on disk is to >>> be preferred over the other. >> >> Why not? There are lots of ways that one could make this determination, >> such as via file names, via IRI-to-file-name redirections, etc. > > He wants the specification to help him figure out how to do this, and > laments that it doesn't. Yes, he wants a totally new kind of thing in the spec to handle something that is divorced from the Semantic Web. >>> I don't see any way of repairing this, however it does suggest that >>> enumerating a couple of examples might be a useful addition to our >>> documentation. >> >> What kind of examples? There are currently three examples in the >> document, and one of these is even for off-line processing. I do not >> think that it is the job of the WG to provide examples for cases that >> [are not] related to the Semantic Web. > > I gave a use case above. I think this *is* related to the Semantic Web. I think that it has no substantive relationship to the Semantic Web and certainly not enough to support a totally new kind of mechanism. > -Alan peter
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