- From: Gerd Wagner <wagnerg@tu-cottbus.de>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:58:49 +0100
- To: "'Dave Reynolds'" <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "'RIF WG'" <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> > These examples raise the question of how vocabularies are > > combined with rules (or how rules are based on vocabularies). > > Can you not translate the vocabulary portions to OWL? Yes, that would be an option, if the vocabulary does not contain any operations(functions. Note that, as a Horn rule language, RIF phase 1, unlike OWL/SWRL, has to accommodate function terms. So, in general, RIF cannot rely on OWL as its underlying vocabulary formalism, but rather needs its own one (though it should be an option to refer from a RIF rulebase/ruleset to external vocabularies, e.g. in the form of RDFS or OWL). -Gerd ---------------------------------------------------- REWERSE Working Group I1 "Rule Modeling and Markup" http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/rewerse-i1/
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