RE: OWL and LOD

> If I could be sure that my SPARQL query environment would use 
> OWL reasoning to fill in the gaps in its knowledge, then I'd 
> be more inclined to publish OWL data. But right now there is 
> a dearth of high-quality, widely-used OWL implementations.

Well there are implementations of SPARQL-DL (e.g. Pellet) but most
SPARQL endpoints I know do tend to just do RDFS reasoning (if that).
Maybe demand will drive more implementations? 

I know there is a new SPARQL working group - is there much talk of OWL
inference + SPARQL going on there?

John
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