- From: Sean Bechhofer <sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:59:48 +0100
- To: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: public-swd-wg@w3.org, public-owl-wg@w3.org
Dear Peter Thanks for your comments [1,2,ISSUE-155]: I think that it would be very useful if there was a version of SKOS that used OWL 2. I understand that it is problematic for a recommendation to point to something that is not (yet) a recommendation. However, I think that an informative document would be useful, even just a version of the RDF/XML document that used the new OWL 2 features. I think that it would be even more useful to have this information in another format, such as the OWL 2 reference syntax. The OWL WG believes that it would be very useful if there was a version of SKOS that used OWL 2. The WG understands that it is problematic for a recommendation to point to something that is not (yet) a recommendation and that further delay to SKOS is probably not warranted. However, the OWL WG believes that publishing, at some point in the future, a document (eg, a WG Note) describing how SKOS could be defined in an OWL 2 environment would be useful. The OWL WG has produced an OWL 2 version of the SKOS specification and would be happy to help SKOS experts in producing a descriptive note explaining how this OWL 2 ontology related to SKOS. This note could be published as a joint WG note of the two WGs. ------------------------------------------------------------------- We note your comments that changes to the Recommendation at this point are not warranted. We do agree, however, that an OWL 2 version of SKOS would be useful, and would be happy to collaborate in producing a descriptive note along the lines suggested. As a consequence, we propose to *postpone* this issue. Please let us know if you are happy with this. Cheers, Sean Bechhofer Alistair Miles [ISSUE-155] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/155 [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 -- Sean Bechhofer School of Computer Science University of Manchester sean.bechhofer@manchester.ac.uk http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/bechhofer
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