- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:22:22 +0000
- To: William Bug <William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>>>>> "WB" == William Bug <William.Bug@DrexelMed.edu> writes: WB> This is a very important point. Thanks, Phil. WB> As is spelled out in the wonderful ProtegeOWL Tutorial PDF WB> (which would be wonderful to have updated a bit), leaning on the WB> reasoner during early phases of ontology construction is very WB> helpful, but ultimately once you have more "hardened" WB> components, you can "save" the inferred graph and distribute WB> that for the user community. Yes, and this is a good route in some cases. It's worth remembering, however, that if you do this then it limits the usages you can make of the ontology -- you can't, for instance, express queries against the ontology using classes which are not mentioned in the ontology already. The ability to combine the conceptual lego of an ontology at any points is very useful at many times. But, it can make deployment architectures simpler. You win some, you loose some. Phil
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