- From: Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 14:06:10 +0200
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- CC: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
Frank Manola wrote: > > My own response to someone who asked > whether an RDF Schema was a schema or an ontology would be "it's not an > "or" kind of question". This is my view too. My own response would be that a _specific_ RDF Schema is an implementation (or embodiment) of a _specific_ ontology. To the extent that an ontology can be expressed in a variety of ways, `schema' is the more precise term. If you speak of schemas and ontologies in general terms then they tend to become interchangeable. Perhaps you can use the words `program' and `algorithm' to illustrate a similar contrast. For these reasons it seems right that we should talk about schemas (the embodiment) and WebOnt should talk about ontologies (the abstract). -- Martyn Horner <martyn.horner@profium.com> Profium, Les Espaces de Sophia, Immeuble Delta, B.P. 037, F-06901 Sophia-Antipolis, France Tel. +33 (0)4.93.95.31.44 Fax. +33 (0)4.93.95.52.58 Mob. +33 (0)6.21.01.54.56 Internet: http://www.profium.com
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