- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:34:29 -0000
- To: "Jeff Heflin" <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, "Deborah McGuinness" <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>
- Cc: <ned.smith@intel.com>, <jeremy_carroll@hp.com>, <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>, <connolly@w3.org>, <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com>, <herman.ter.horst@philips.com>, <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, <www-archive@w3.org>
My views Y(es)/N(o)/?(undecided), justifications follow. > > Jeff's Deborah's Original list > ------------------- -------------------- ------------------- > shared meaning multi-user Y > ontology reuse extensible Y > ontology evolution versioning versioning Y > interoperability diff and merge domain mapping Y > inconsistency inconsistency Y > scalability scalability large ontologies Y > user-friendly ease of use ? > data persistence N > security N > XML interfaces N > internationalization ? > ontology-based search N > ontology querying N ================ Justifications of Ns & ?s ------------------------- N> data persistence N> security N> xml interfaces ?> internationalization are part of the metadata layer of semantic web architecture (RDF), not part of the ontology layer. RDF might not offer adequate answers yet but the problems should be fixed there. There may be internationalization issues that are part of the ontology layer; but most i18n is in the metadata layer. N> ontology-based search N> ontology querying I think these are later work. I would expect standardization of metadata layer query to precede that of ontology layer query. There is no sign of metadata layer query standardization so I think WOW-G should duck ontology query standardization. ?>user-friendly "If you want friendly get a dog" The language is for machine to machine communication. Friendliness is for apps on top of it. Jeremy
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