- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:07:16 +0100
- To: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
As far as the general issue of conversion goes. I think such a mechanism will be useful, indeed it will probably prove essential for some applications, but I think it would extend OWL's scope too much if we had it there. If it were in OWL I can see people wanting to keep what OWL does now, but use another conversion system, or to use OWL's conversion system but use another application for the ontological stuff it does now. To my mind this marks a good point of separation between technologies. For that matter the kind of processing needed to work with what OWL does now and with a conversion application is quite different as well, so from the perspective of actually writing APIs and libraries I would see a practical advantage in separating them.
Received on Friday, 27 June 2003 08:05:54 UTC