- From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:29:26 +0000 (GMT)
- To: "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>, "Ora Lassila" <daml@lassila.org>, <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
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 -- Ian Horrocks, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44 161 275 6133 Fax: +44 161 275 6204 Email: horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk WWW: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks
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