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/~horrocksReceived on Tuesday, 12 December 2000 13:27:13 UTC
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