- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 10:17:43 +0100
- To: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: SWBPD list <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
Nick Gibbins wrote: > Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > >>The following came up on Jena-dev, with the refrain "that sounds like a >>job for best practices" ... (not exactly) >> >>[[ >>given an arbitrary source of semantic >>web data on the 'net, what *is* the best practice for determining which >>semantic-web language and encoding is being used? >>]] >>(e.g. use OWL Full or DL or RDFS semantics) > > > I'm not sure if this counts as best practice, but we use a simulated > stochastic process to determine which Semantic Web language is being used > by a particular file. You can see a demo of our technique at: > > http://triplestore.aktors.org/demo/OwlBall/ > I think that qualifies under the "sorting out the mess that we've made" Isn't http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl intended as an RDFS file, not OWL Full? (The semantics differ ...) It made me laugh though. Jeremy
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