Re: new semantics initiative

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, R.V.Guha wrote:

> This is not just a single namespace. It is a space of namespaces. So,
> some terms from owl  will be in it. As will some terms from daml-s and
> so on. Any term inroduced by any future language to deal with logical
> machinery (e.g., log:implies by cwm/euler), should be designatable as
> going into this namspace so that RDF doesn't think its a simple triple.

This is a nice high level overview, thanks.

I would like to see "to deal with logical machinery" fleshed out in more
detail. Can you offer a more detailed account? What counts as "dealing
with logical machinery"? (I fear a repeat of the rdfs:ConstraintResource
mistake, where we didn't have a clear notion of which future
classes/properties would be flagged).

Dan

> guha
>
> patrick hayes wrote:
>
> >
> >> At 12:07 12/06/2002 -0500, patrick hayes wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>> What is wrong with URI inspection?
> >>
> >>
> >> Questions:
> >>
> >>   o what uri prefix should be used?  Is it ok to insist on an http:
> >> prefix?
> >
> >
> > I would guess so. I would expect that it would be done the same way
> > that the W3C handles the RDF and RDFS vocabulary, by a URL linking to
> > a set-in-stone page.
> >
> >>   o how will names in this namespace be allocated?
> >
> >
> > Do you mean how procedurally? Thats up the W3C. I would guess that a
> > WG would submit some kind of application to some internal secretariat,
> > or something like that. Isnt this kind of stuff all set out in the W3C
> > process manual somewhere? For example, we are proposing to create an
> > rdfd: namespace, right? Like that.
> >
> > Pat
> >
> >
>
>

Received on Saturday, 15 June 2002 12:11:10 UTC