Re: Objective 4.6 -- additional semantic information

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:08:35PM -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:59:18PM -0700, Rob Shearer wrote:
> 
> > I must admit that upon re-reading the UC&R doc I am a bit surprised that
> > disjunction has fallen off the radar. I certainly think users like being
> > able to form arbitrary boolean constructions.
> 
> FWIW, I was just thinking this today! Along the lines, "don't we need
> disjunction as an explicit requirement?" I don't know how or why
> disjunction use cases fell out of the doc; maybe this is one of those
> many mistakes I've made, but if so, it was totally unwitting.
> 
> In other words, I think that disjunction should be an explicit
> requirement about disjunction, and I would be happy to help someone
> craft a use case that motivates it.
> 
> > actually getting the benefit of the new system. If features like
> > disjunction are so rarely useful, then I fear a lot of us have wasted a
> > lot of time defining whole new languages like OWL and SWRL for
> > expressing things that are even more esoteric!
> 
> I don't think that's the case at all -- rather, I think that
> disjunction just fell off the map. Let's get it back on.

[1] finds an Annotea use case motivated by eliminating 3 extra queries
(in fact, why I put disjunction into Algae). I provided Algae syntax
and Alberto provided RDQL syntax.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004AprJun/thread.html#247
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