Re: OWL without RDF

actually, we're trying to move the discussion to public-owl-dev@w3.org
there's a thread there that expresses some of my concerns about 
moving away from the OWL syntax - given that the primary tools out 
there right now still assume the OWL is integrated with the RDF 
graph...

At 2:52 PM -0500 11/16/06, William Bug wrote:
As I expected, the experts are listening.  :-)

Many thanks, Holger.  That's extremely important to know.

I will dig into the thread for more detail.  One main concern would 
be whether that was just a token gesture to stay compatible for now, 
as opposed to a commitment to remain compatible, until or unless an 
effective alternative is provided to representing very large 
knowledgebases in RDF.

I think more than anything I was a bit overwhelmed by the collective 
picture given by those half-dozen or so presentations from last 
week's meeting.  The meeting seemed "fresh" enough, so that it could 
be expected to be reflective of the status quo.  I assume there was 
much heated discussion during the meeting, that would have filled out 
such detail - or such has been carried out on the owl-dev list.

I suppose it's also a good idea to dig into the OWL Extensions list 
hosted by Jim Hendler's lab:
	<http://lists.mindswap.org/mailman/listinfo/owl>http://lists.mindswap.org/mailman/listinfo/owl

Cheers,
Bill


On Nov 16, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Holger Knublauch wrote:


However, I'd point out, in the last document, where they describe a 
mapping of OWL 1.1 to RDF, they make the following caveat:
Not every OWL 1.1 ontology can be serialized in RDF. In particular, 
ontologies using the following features of OWL 1.1 cannot be 
serialized:
    1. punning and
    2. annotations on axioms.


Please see a recent thread on the public-owl-dev mailing list about 
this: 
<http://www.nabble.com/Limitations-of-OWL-1.1-to-RDF-mapping-tf2639224.html>http://www.nabble.com/Limitations-of-OWL-1.1-to-RDF-mapping-tf2639224.html

Bijan states:
"The RDF mapping has lagged behind the others, but the plan is to
extend the mapping to cover these cases."

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