RE: OWL comment - owl:OntologyProperty

Hi Guus,
Thanks for your response.  I assumed that, presuming it wasn't just an
accidental editorial artefact in as&s, OntologyProperty was a variant on
AnnotationProperty, in that it is not allowed in property axioms.  Do the
updated documents explain why both AnnotationProperty and OntologyProperty
are needed?  ISTM that plurality of property types is potentially confusing
to users of the language, especially if the differences between them are
slim, and come down to nuances of the semantic treatment.

Cheers,
Ian


>  > The OWL AS&S refers to a class owl:OntologyProperty (see 
> e.g. row 3 
> of the
>  > table in section 4.1 of AS&S). This class does not seem to be 
> referenced or
>  > defined anywhere else in the specs (including in owl.owl), 
> and it is not  > clear what it is representing or what role 
> it is playing.
> 
> Thanks very much for your comment. This was an omission in 
> Reference. It 
> has already been corrected in the editor's draft [1] after a comment 
> from the S&AS editor, e.g. see Sec. 7 of [1], introduction:
> 
> [[
> NOTE: The ontology-import construct owl:imports and the 
> ontology-versioning constructs owl:priorVersion, 
> owl:backwardCompatibleWith and owl:inCompatibleWith are 
> defined in the 
> OWL vocabulary as instances of the OWL built-in class 
> owl:OntologyProperty. ]]
> 
> In addition, owl:OntologyProperty has been added to 
> Appendices A, B, and C.
> 
> Note: the editor's draft has no official status and is only 
> use by the 
> editors to keep track of the editorial changes during the LC period.
> 
> Please let us know whether this response is satisfactory.
> 
> Guus Schreiber

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 12:19:36 UTC