- From: kei cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:02:31 -0400
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: "Miller, Michael D (Rosetta)" <Michael_Miller@Rosettabio.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Jim Hendler wrote: > At 9:36 -0700 6/12/06, Miller, Michael D (Rosetta) wrote: > >> Hi Kei, >> >> Once an OWL ontology is published there are no typos! If one wants to >> use the ontology, one must conform to the definitions. >> >> cheers, >> Michael >> > > or produce a new, backward compatible version which makes the change... > (or inform the author of the original to fix it in his next release) > > One thing this does teach us is the importance of having the ontology > name space document be at a set URI - this packaging up OWL in zip > files is very harmful to the whole idea of the Seamntic Web, since the > "same" ontology in two different places is really two different > ontologies in actuality, since the URIs are difference. I've actually > suggested to some folks in the OWL community an easy fix for this, am > hoping it will get into one of the notes... > -JH > I think this are very good points, trying to identify (legal, technical, and social) impediments to semantic web technologies. :-) -Kei
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