Re: RDF Recommendation Set comments (re agenda for 6th April)

From: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
Subject: Re: RDF Recommendation Set comments (re agenda for 6th April)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:40:27 -0500

> * [2011-04-07 12:28:03 -0400] Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> écrit:
> 
> ] Yes, if you can derive contradictions in RDFS all by itself then nothing
> ] from OWL needs to be added to RDFS to be able to derive contractions
> ] in the extended RDFS.
> 
> Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. What I meant was, to derive
> useful contradictions from real data. It isn't clear to me
> that the pathological examples would appear in real data
> and the one example I've seen of a useful contradiction
> relies on xsd reasoning.
> 
> So you're strictly correct, but it isn't a very useful or
> interesting result in my opinion.
> 
> -w

Aah, you want *useful* answers!

Well, that depends on just what you consider to be useful, doesn't it?
Please let us know your definition of useful, then.

peter

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