Re: exchanging OWL through RIF

At 15:58 +0100 3/7/06, Christian de Sainte Marie wrote:
>Uli Sattler wrote:
>>  in my understanding, for OWL, we will need (as for any other "formalism"
>>  we might want to consider) a translator that takes some OWL and maps
>>  it into RIF. It is, however, not the job of RIF to provide this  translator.
>
>Hear! Hear!
>
>However, it is our job (per the charter) to discuss the mapping and 
>identify what can be mapped from OWL to RIF and what cannot: <<This 
>document [the REC on using le RIF in combination with OWL] must 
>clearly state which features of OWL can be mapped to (or otherwise 
>interoperate with) Phase 1 rules and which cannot, and software 
>using this mapping must be demonstrated during interoperability 
>testing. The document may also discuss rule language extensions to 
>cover the excluded OWL features.>>
>
>Christian

and this document won't be able to move from CR to PR without 
implementations (by W3C policy), so we do have to make sure that what 
we design is implementable...

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