Re: Could owl:sameAs reference non-OWL resources?

From: "Bernard Vatant" <bernard.vatant@mondeca.com>
Subject: RE: Could owl:sameAs reference non-OWL resources?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:06:02 +0200

> 
> 
> Peter
> 
> This is very helpful. Thanks a lot. I think the following is an important
> remark for implementors.
> 
> "Go ahead, but please don't say that you actually do stuff with OWL unless
> you actually do what is needed by the semantic theory underlying OWL."
> 
> Sure enough! But how will you be sure that we, or other developers,
> actually do that? As you know, developers will rush on the easy part, the
> syntax ... So do you envision in the future to develop some sort of
> conformance test suite for OWL engines, as soon as the standard is stable?
> 
> Bernard

Well, there is already a test suite for OWL, but there is no way of making
it totally comprehensive.  I suppose that it would be possible to develop a
program that generates tests without saying what these tests are and then
using it to validate implementations.

peter

Received on Tuesday, 29 April 2003 08:16:41 UTC