RE: [OPEN] and/or [PORT] : a practical question

At 18:53 +0100 3/23/04, Bernard Vatant wrote:
>Chris
>
>>  I may be misunderstanding your question,
>>  but I believe it is quite simple:
>>  if you want to treat classes as instances you are in OWL Full.
>>  There is simply no way to do that in DL or Lite ...
>
>I know that :))
>So let me put the question otherwise, in terms of best practice.
>
>- Is it worth the trade-off to switch one's ontology (otherwise DL) 
>to OWL-Full, just to
>allow its classes to be used as objects in 'dc:subject' predicates?

That's a weird way to ask the question.  You mean, is it worth doing 
the extra work to break your naturally occuring model just so that 
you can be in DL?

>
[snip]

>Is the problem more clearly set this way?
>Is not it a BP issue?
>
I would argue this is indeed a BP issue, but probably for WORLD not 
for OPEN... we need to explain why and when you would do the extra 
work (and in every case we have explored it is extra work) to make 
sure your ontology is in the DL profile of OWL.
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