- From: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:13:16 +0100
- To: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Cc: SWD Working SWD <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Sounds good, I'm happy for the RDF/XML document to be a normative subset. Cheers, Alistair. On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 01:04:58PM +0100, Sean Bechhofer wrote: > > All, > > Here's an updated draft response to Peter and the OWL WG, on > [ISSUE-154], taking > into account additional comments. Let me know what you think. Note *this > is just > a draft, not the actual response* -- I'll wait for feedback from the WG > before > replying formally to Peter. (Peter if you're lurking on this list feel > free to > post your thoughts at any time.) > > Sean > > > Dear Peter > > Thank you for your comments [1,2]: > > "I would much prefer to have more formality in this reference document. > I feel that it is important to have at least those parts of the SKOS > model that fit into RDF or OWL be prominently mentioned. It is true > that there is a RDF/XML document that has the OWL 1 portion of SKOS, but > this is only mentioned at the very end of the reference document. I > feel that it would be much better to mention this RDF/XML document at > the beginning of the reference document. I also note that the reference > document mentions an outdated version of the RDF/XML document." > > "The OWL WG generally likes the SKOS Reference document. > > However, it is the opinion of the WG that there should be more formality > in this reference document. It would be best to have those parts of the > SKOS model that fit into RDF or OWL be prominently mentioned throughout > the reference document and, moreover, that the RDF/XML document that has > the OWL 1 portion of SKOS be mentioned at the beginning of the reference > document. At this late stage, however, the OWL WG would be satisfied > with only the second half of this change. > > The OWL WG notes that the reference document mentions an outdated > version of the RDF/XML document and expects that this will be fixed. > > The OWL WG notes that the RDF/XML document is *not* normative with > respect to the SKOS vocabulary even if it is located at the "root" of > the SKOS vocabulary. The OWL WG suggests that reference document > indicate that the RDF/XML document is a normative subset of the SKOS > specification." > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > The outdated reference was an oversight that has now been rectified. We > will add a pointer to the RDF schema in the introduction to the > document, and will state explicitly that the RDF/XML document is a > normative subset of the specification. > > We hope that these changes will be satisfactory. > > Cheers, > > Sean Bechhofer > Alistair Miles > > [ISSUE-154] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/154 > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Oct/0018.html > [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Oct/0059.html > > -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993
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