Re: draft response for 52b / JR6b

looks good to me.
-Alan

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
<pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>
> [Draft Response for LC Comment 52b:] JR6b
>
> Dear Jonathan:
> Thank you for your message
> <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-comments/2009Jan/0068.html>
> on the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language last call drafts.
>
> Some of your comments in the message relate to specific editorial
> concerns with the RDF-Based Semantics document.  These comments are
> being addressed in another reply.  This response addresses only your
> comments about the use of "OWL 2", "OWL 2 DL", and "OWL 2 Full".
>
> The working group realizes that our documents did not do a good job of
> describing the terminology related to OWL 2.  To alleviate this problem
> there is now a new document, the Document Overview
> http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Document_Overview/.
>
> The structure of OWL 2 ontologies is defined in the OWL 2 Structural
> Specification.  The Direct Semantics provides a meaning for these
> structures.  The RDF-Based Semantics provides a meaning for all RDF
> graphs.  As all OWL 2 ontologies can be mapped into RDF graphs, the
> RDF-Based Semantics also provides a semantics for all OWL 2 ontologies.
>
> OWL 2 DL ontologies are those OWL 2 ontologies that admit reasoning
> using well-known DL techniques when interpreted using the Direct
> Semantics, and that can be mapped to RDF graphs and back again without
> affecting their meaning in the Direct Semantics.  The OWL 2 Structural
> Specification provides a comprehensive and compact list of the extra
> conditions that are required for an OWL 2 ontology to be an OWL 2 DL
> ontology.
>
> OWL 2 Full refers to the view of RDF graphs (including all OWL 2
> ontologies) under the RDF-Based Semantics, and thus, as you say, is a
> combination of both syntax and semantics.
>
> Several other documents have been edited to better describe how OWL
> works.The relevant edits have ended up being interspersed with other
> work, so no diff are provided here.  The current working drafts of all
> the WG documents are linked to from the WG home page.
>
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>
> Regards,
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider
> on behalf of the W3C OWL Working Group
>
>

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