Re: OWL 1.1 and the RDF heritage

Dear Michael,

I think the document you refer to should be considered as obsolete.
There is now a published OWL1.1 submission at W3C and, I believe, the
OWL1.1 community considers that one as the most up-to-date version:

http://www.w3.org/Submission/owl11-overview/

and that one makes (at least part of) your question essentially moot:-)

Sincerely

Ivan

Michael Erdmann wrote:
> 
> List,
> 
> can someone please explain the following sentence in the current OWL 1.1
> Semantics draft [1]. The abstract reads:
> 
>> [...] OWL 1.1 does not provide an RDF-compatible semantics; ontologies
>> encoded in OWL RDF should be interpreted by converting them into
>> functional-style syntax and interpreting the result as specified in
>> this document.
> 
> 
> Does this mean, there will be no RDF/XML serialization for OWL1.1
> models, or will OWL 1.1 merely drop the pseudo-compatibility between OWL
> and RDF Schema?
> 
> thanks,
>  michael
> 
> [1] http://owl1_1.cs.manchester.ac.uk/semantics.html
> 

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