Re: Concrete and abstract domains disjointness

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 12:45, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos wrote:
> > 
> > Can somebody explain some formal reason why the concrete and abstract
> > domains (i.e. the datatype and individual sets) have to be disjoint in OWL
> > DL?

[...]

> IIRC this issue was not (formally) raised, 

No? I think it was:

[[
5.1 Uniform treatment of literal/data values
The DAML+OIL specs separate the domain of discourse into datatype values
and individuals, and require ontology designers to designate whether
properties take datatype values or individuals. As a result, interesting
features like UniqueProperty can't be used for properties that take
string/date/integer values.
]]
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.1-Uniform-treatment-of-literal-data-values

> so the separation is in OWL because it was in DAML+OIL (not for 
> technical reasons)
> 
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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