RE: Announcement: DAML Annotation Tool available for Download

Siegfried - OntoMat looks very good. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work
with _DAML_ ontologies, rather is uses RDFS ontologies. What I mean by that
is just this....

In the sample ontology included with OntoMat you have the following
namespaces declared:
	<rdf:RDF
  	    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
  	    xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
  	    xmlns:daml="http://www.daml.org/2000/12/daml+oil#"
  	    xmlns="#">

and this class:

	<rdfs:Class rdf:ID="Employee">
	    <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Person"/>
	    <!-- Restrictions omitted -->
	</rdfs:Class>

When the class is written as:

	<daml:Class rdf:ID="Employee">
		<daml:subClassOf rdf:resource="#Person"/>
		<!-- Restrictions omitted -->
	</daml:Class>

it no longer appears in the ontology browser window. The first class is
RDFS, but it is NOT DAML+OIL, the second is DAML put your tool ignores it!!

The sameClassAs property that linked daml:Class and rdfs:Class has been
removed from the DAML+OIL specification, so an ontology that has only
rdfs:Classes and rdf:Properties is not DAML. Or at least it is an ontology
with no daml:Classes or daml:Properties, which is not very useful as
DAML+OIL. 

By the way, I have the same complaint with OntoEdit. Another fine tool, but
it does not produce DAML+OIL, rather it produces RDFS. (last time I looked)

How about an option on both of these tools to import/export DAML classes,
properties and etc? 

Regards - Lewis
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Lewis L Hart 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Siegfried Handschuh [mailto:handschuh@acm.org]
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:39 AM
>To: www-rdf-logic@w3.org; www-rdf-interest@w3.org
>Subject: Announcement: DAML Annotation Tool available for Download
>
>
>Dear Interest Groups,
>
>the beta version 0.1 of Ontomat, a DAML annotation tool
>is available for download at: 
>http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/annotation/ontomat/index.html
>Ontomat is a user-friendly interactive webpage annotation tool. It supports

>the user with the task of creating and maintaining ontology-based DAML 
>markups, i.e. creating of DAML-instances, attributes and relationships.
>
>All the best,
>Siegfried Handschuh
>
>---
>Siegfried Handschuh
>University of Karlsruhe, Institute AIFB,
>D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
>Tel.: +49-(0)721-608 7363, Fax.: +49-(0)721-608 6580
>sha@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
>http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/sha
>

Received on Thursday, 26 July 2001 16:04:47 UTC