Re: OWL vs. RDF : Face-to-face meeting minutes

Besides the reference to the paper of Horrock et al, let me give a
slightly different (but complementary) perspective: use OWL if and only
if you need it. Lot can be achieved using RDF+RDFS but using simpler
tools. As I usually say: "you are a perfectly decent Semantic Web
citizen even if you do not use OWL".

Of course, there are cases when OWL becomes necessary, in which case,
well, it should be used!

I.

Kerstin.L.Forsberg@astrazeneca.com wrote:
> Dear all,
> in our F2F meeting last week the topic "OWL vs. RDF" was mentioned 
> briefly a couple of times. And as I understand it; Alan had a strong 
> opinion favouring OWL, Dick argued for all RDF and was Don puzzled 
> as me. 
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> Would be great to have some short statements from you as guidance 
> on this topic in discussion with colleagues here at AstraZeneca.
> 
> Kind regards
> Kerstin Forsberg
> AstraZeneca
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