- From: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:45:53 -0400
- To: Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>
- CC: public-webont-comments@w3.org
Dear Misha, Thank you for bringing up the issue that the firstname/lastname example in Use Cases and Requirements was not culturaly neutral. In the current editor's draft, I have ammended that paragraph with an e-mail address based example as suggested earlier in this thread. Here is the updated text: O11. String manipulation The language should support string concatenation and simple pattern matching. These features can be used to establish interoperability between ontologies that treat complex information as a formatted string and those that have separate properties for each component. For example, one ontology may represent an e-mail address as a single string, while another may divide it into a string for user name and a string for server name. To integrate the two ontologies, one would need to specify that the concatenation of the user name, the '@' character, and the server name is equivalent to the single value used in the first ontology. Please let me know if this is satisfactory. Sincerely, Jeff Heflin Misha Wolf wrote: > > Web Ontology Language (OWL) Use Cases and Requirements > W3C Working Draft 31 March 2003 > > | O11. String manipulation > | > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-webont-req-20030331/#obj-string-manipulatio > n > | > | The language should support string concatenation and simple pattern > | matching. These features can be used to establish interoperability > | between ontologies that treat complex information as a formatted > string > | and those that have separate properties for each component. For > example, > | one ontology may represent a person's name as a single string > "lastname, > | firstname," while another may have a property for each. > > The concepts "lastname" and "firstname" are not culturally neutral. > What is more, they are fairly meaningless, as one culture or person will > > place the family name last, while another culture or person will place > the given name last. If the purpose of such a formatted string were to > enable, say, sorting by family name, then this purpose would not be > achieved by the construction "lastname, firstname". > > Please replace "lastname" with "family name" and "firstname" with "given > name". > > Thanks, > Misha > > --------------------------------------------------------------- - > Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com > > Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more > information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging > > Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual > sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be > the views of Reuters Ltd.
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