Re: Should we say "data model"?

Yeah, I appreciate that concern. Everyone keeps telling me that this seems
like a problem in principle; apparently we're the only ones who built it
*as a real thing* and *in practice* it's not a problem at all. Our
customers don't find it in the least bit confusing. In fact, as we
originally said, most people who wanted OWL always wanted closed world
semantics anyway, so giving it to them is a big win.

Oh well. :>

Cheers,
Kendall


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Bernard Vatant <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kendall
>
> I did not want to point at any specific syntax, but since you mention it
> ...
> Reusing OWL syntax with a closed world interpretation is of course a
> seductive path (which I've been following myself, as said before) but I've
> always been a bit uneasy about it. OWA is built in the OWL Recommendation.
> I would rather have a neutral language, with non-ambiguous open world
> interpretation in OWL, and another one in any closed-world language (SPIN,
> SPARQL, you name it).
>
>
> 2014-07-29 18:07 GMT+02:00 Kendall Clark <kendall@clarkparsia.com>:
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Bernard Vatant <
>> bernard.vatant@mondeca.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Does that mean that we are looking for something (language, format,
>>> whatever) that could be interpreted either with the open world assumption
>>> to support open world reasoning, and (exactly the same piece) interpreted
>>> in closed world applications as a constraint for interfaces or a validation
>>> rule?
>>>
>>
>> I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but this is precisely what
>> Stardog ICV does using OWL syntax and is (to my knowledge) the only such
>> system that does. But, alas, it does not appear that there is consensus in
>> the likely Validation WG to put that on the recommendation track. A
>> mistake, in my view, but there you go. :>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kendall
>>
>
>
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