Re: proposed changes to Document Overview

I also removed the "Full" from the last paragraph of Profiles where  
it clearly wasn't necessary.

Ian


On 15 Mar 2009, at 18:14, Ian Horrocks wrote:

> 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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