Re: FLOWS and URI from Bijan Parsia on 2005-09-15 (public-sws-ig@w3.org from September 2005)

From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:17:26 -0400
To: Sheila McIlraith <sheila@cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: public-sws-ig@w3.org, Ryusuke Masuoka <ryusuke.masuoka@us.fujitsu.com>
Message-Id: <6782da1cd1a45b6c7f15661327f3868d@isr.umd.edu>

On Sep 15, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Sheila McIlraith wrote:

> Ryu,
>
> That's correct.  The purpose of FLOWS was to develop of first-order
> logic ontology for Web services.  We do not (yet) use URIs to specify
> concepts.

I don't understand the dialectical point of the second sentence. Even 
in developing a FOL ontology for Web services, it might be nice to have 
URIs for the specific concepts to serve as a common terminological 
basis for various encodings in Semantic Web languages.

If it's just, "We didn't get round to it and KIF doesn't make it easy 
or inevitable out of the box" well, that's ok, of course :)

Cheers,
Bijan.

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