RE: A proposal for clarifying the definitions of datatype maps, take II

Hi Ian, Boris!

In Boris' original proposal there were also the idea to perform some changes
to the Direct Semantics. Has this document also been updated?

Best,
Michael 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: public-owl-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-owl-wg-request@w3.org]
>On Behalf Of Ian Horrocks
>Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 10:53 PM
>To: OWL 1.1
>Cc: Boris Motik
>Subject: Re: A proposal for clarifying the definitions of datatype maps,
>take II
>
>As you will recall, the WG approved Boris's proposal during the 1st
>July teleconf [1]. Completing the necessary work has taken a while --
>entirely my fault for being slow to do the necessary work on
>Conformance.
>
>To summarise, Boris has clarified the definition of datatypes and the
>OWL datatype map in Syntax. As a result, Conformance no longer needs
>to specify constraints on datatypes and the datatype map (e.g., that
>conformant tools must use the OWL 2 datatype map) -- the datatypes
>that can occur in (profile) documents and that must be supported by
>(profile) tools are now explicitly defined in Syntax and Profiles.
>The relevant diffs are:
>
>http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?
>title=Syntax&diff=24783&oldid=24704
>http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?
>title=Syntax&diff=24850&oldid=24798
>http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?
>title=Conformance&diff=24942&oldid=24877
>
>Please let us know ASAP if you have any comments w.r.t. these changes.
>
>Regards,
>Ian
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/meeting/2009-07-01#resolution_2
>
>
>On 29 Jun 2009, at 14:33, Boris Motik wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In April I've sent around the following e-mail, in which I've
>> proposed to
>> clarify certain definitions surrounding datatype maps:
>>
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2009Apr/0454.html
>>
>> Please refer to my original e-mail for the details; in short, the
>> idea is to
>> remove certain discrepancies between Conformance and the rest of
>> the documents,
>> with Conformance being taken as a guideline.
>>
>> I haven't pushed this forward earlier because we were getting ready
>> to go into
>> CR. Since we've successfully reached that milestone, now seems like
>> a perfect
>> time for improving the spec. Therefore, unless someone objects, I
>> would make a
>> few editorial changes to the spec and inform the WG of the outcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> 	Boris
>>
>>
>

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