- From: Adrian Walker <adrianw@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:32:47 -0400
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-rules@w3.org, Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>, dreer@fh-furtwangen.de
Hi Jim --
At 11:07 PM 6/22/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>I spent many years of my career arguing against DL and doing scruffy AI -
>yet here I am defending OWL - why? because the design time and fights
>over the details of a number of use cases ended up creating something
>pretty damn useful -- both in the OWL DL space and in the OWL Full space
>-- so somehow the process worked...
You make a good point. A lot of the practical work on SW rules (e.g.
jena), and on related SQL-flavored langages, is still more scruffy than
neat. A recent attempt to neatify some of it is at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rule-workshop-discuss/2005Jun/att-0006/00-part
Cheers, -- Adrian
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