[OWL-S] Profile, textDescription

• From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:32:29 -0500
• To: public-sws-ig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <C998312E-6814-11D8-A1D4-0003936A0B26@isr.umd.edu>

One small, but measurable, good we might do is to specify how to use 
Dublin Core Metadata elements in OWL-S. This is cropping up in WSDL (at 
my instigation) to handle versioning of interfaces and files, so we 
might as well thrash some out here.

For example, we have the property on a profile "textDescriptoin". Why 
not either sameProperty or subProperty dc:description? Or, better yet, 
just *use* dc:description?

I notice we restrict the textDescription cardinality to being 1. That 
1) precludes providing translations of the description in different 
languages, thus hurting internationalization and 2) precludes having 
different "level" of description, say, suitable for a tooltip as 
opposed to a web page, or for a novice rather than an expert.

Cheers,
Bijan Parsia.

Received on Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:32:33 UTC