Re: Where DAML+OIL deviates from the RDF-Schema spec.

I completely agree (wth respect to [1], [2] and [3] in Frank's message) and
hope the new RDFcore group regards these as bug fixes.

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Klyne" <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
To: "Frank van Harmelen" <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>
Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: Where DAML+OIL deviates from the RDF-Schema spec.


> At 11:53 PM 2/24/01 +0100, Frank van Harmelen wrote:
> >[2]
> >"[in DAML+OIL] multiple domain expressions restrict the domain of P to
the
> >intersection of
> >the class expressions.
> >Warning: This is contrary to the semantics of the domain element in the
> >RDF Schema
> >specification, which we believe to be flawed."
> >
> >[3]
> >"Warning: Although the RDF Schema specification only allows one range
> >restriction for each
> >property, it seems quite natural to allow multiple range restrictions.
> >These would then
> >again be interpreted as saying that the range of P must be the
> >intersection of all the
> >class expressions."
>
> FWIW, I would support changes to RDFS to be more like DAML+OIL in these
> respects.  I think these interpretations are more consistent with the
> overall structure of RDF.
>
> (My rationale:  under "open-world" assumptions RDFS (alone) can not
> generally be used to detect errors in RDF, but it can be used to make
> inferences.  The usages described above better support inference.)
>
> #g
>
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