Re: RDFS bug "A property can have at most one range property"

On December 11, Tim Berners-Lee writes:
> I see DAML-ONT as natural extension of RDF-S.  Whether for simplicity
> one defines synonyms in the DAML namesapce for RDFS proerties is
> a question which is open.  I understand the coinsensus is for the moment
> not to.  I find when authoring things by hand it is a  pain to have to
> use seperate rdf: and rdfs: and ont: namespaces, but some said their
> software
> didn't handle coreference well enough to pepper the world with synonyms.
> I'm not very fussy about it at present myself.

The latest consensus is that synonyms will be retained, even if
"deprecated", as an aid to backwards compatibility.

Ian
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Received on Tuesday, 12 December 2000 13:27:13 UTC