Re: proposed changes to Document Overview

I completely agree. I even went so far as to remove the sentence --  
it can obviously be put back if deemed to be useful/necessary.

Ian


On 11 Mar 2009, at 15:30, Sandro Hawke wrote:

>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 20:21, Peter F. Patel-Schneider
>> <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This semantics for OWL 2 Ontologies is
>>> sometimes called the =93OWL 2 Full=94 semantics and =93OWL 2  
>>> Full=94 is a=
>> lso
>>> used to refer to the entire OWL 2 language, particularly when  
>>> expressed
>>> as RDF graphs.
>>
>> I would like the sentence above (which was mostly present before
>> Peter's edit) removed.  I don't believe the first part is accurate --
>> nowhere in the documents is the RDF-based semantics referred to as  
>> the
>> OWL 2 Full semantics.  I believe the second part is contentious and
>> provides a weak endorsement of the practice of referring to the
>> "entire" OWL 2 language as OWL 2 Full.
>
> While I don't mind Peter's text, I support this change, with the  
> idea of
> more-or-less deprecating the term "Full".
>
> The only other places it occurs in this document are in the Venn  
> diagram
> (where i think it's good), and in the last paragraph of Profiles,  
> where
> it could stay or go.
>
>     -- Sandro
>
>

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