- From: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:45:28 +0100
- To: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Cc: SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Hi Guus, On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Guus Schreiber wrote: > NOTATIONS > > [[ > The OWL WG notes that one portion of SKOS (Notations) uses custom > datatypes. Although these seem to be benign, because RDF and OWL allow > extra datatypes, the use of these datatypes is not likely to be > supported by many tools. The presence of extra datatypes may cause > difficulties in some tools, which may just reject SKOS documents that > have these datatypes. > ]] > > Sean already pointed out that we can indicate in the document that > user-defined datatypes are only explicitly needed when one needs > multiple notations (so only in Sec. ). In addition I would like to add > the tools should not reject SKOS documents containing user-defined > datatypes, see the OWL reference section on datatype reasoning [2], in > particular the last sentence: > > [[ > Unrecognized datatypes should be treated in the same way as > unsupported datatypes. > ]] This approach seems sound to me. Cheers, Alistair. -- 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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