- From: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:43:15 +0200
- To: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- CC: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Hi, There is something I don't understand here: if we do not need to use custom user-defined datatypes when one needs only one notation, what should be used in that case then? No datatype? Antoine > 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. > >
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