- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:38:26 -0500
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: Brian_McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Alan Rector <rector@cs.man.ac.uk>, Natasha Noy <noy@SMI.Stanford.EDU>, swbp <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
>* McBride, Brian <brian.mcbride@hp.com> [2004-05-17 09:31+0100] >> >> >> > >> > The paper is really about indicating the subject of >> > resources using OWL ontologies. >> >> I would prefer to see RDFS included within the scope of the paper. > >OWL is built upon RDFS, so it is already in there. No no, that's too simple. OWL modifies RDFS in significant ways (eg it imposes an extensional reading of subClassOf which makes inferencing more complicated.) I agree with Brian. RDFS represents a possible 'sweet spot' for many applications a little below (and to the left) of OWL-DL. Pat >The issue is more >terminological difference I think: RDF people say 'vocabulary' and >OWL people say 'ontology'. Perhaps if we wrote 'RDF/OWL' more often, >the commonality might be made more widely appreciated? > >Dan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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