- From: Deborah McGuinness <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 18:28:33 -0800
- To: Leo Obrst <lobrst@mitre.org>
- CC: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com, Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl, www-webont-wg@w3.org
sorry for the slow response - i was offline and am just catching up. we did indeed start with XOL and make some small modifications for the VerticalNet ontology tool work. if people want a pointer to that work it is at [1]. If people would like me to pursue the idea of using XOL with vinay or peter i will be happy to do that. i am also happy with web ontology language. [1] http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologyBuilderVerticalNet-abstract.html Leo Obrst wrote: > Although I tend to agree with you, Ian, XOL does have the history you > cite. And I know personally of ontology management tools which tried to > utilize (and extend) XOL: e.g., VerticalNet and its Ontology Builder, > from whence I came recently. But since I and my former employees (all > former VerticalNet extinct dept. of ontological engineering employees) > are wary of the intellectual property police, I cannot say much more. > There is a published document by Deborah McGuiness et al. in the recent > Stanford Semantic Web conference. So, the XOL term may come with a > price. I would let Peter Karp and Vinay Chaudhri respond, however. > > Leo > > Ian Horrocks wrote: > > > > I prefer XOL to any other name I have seen so far. Moreover, I'm not > > convinced that this choice is completely ruled out by its former > > use. XOL was a proposal for an "XML-based Ontology Interchange > > Language" from P. D. Karp, V. K. Chaudhri and J. Thomere which was > > really just an XML serialisation of the OKBC-lite knowledge model. As > > far as I am aware it is only described in an early draft, and although > > this influenced the work on OIL, XOL itself was never fully developed. > > > > Bearing this in mind, wouldn't it be possible to "recycle" XOL? After > > all, unless we start taking recycling seriously, the worlds supply of > > TLAs will soon be exhausted (in fact it probably is already). > > > > Regards, Ian > > > > On November 23, Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com writes: > > > > > > He missed SWIL (Semantic Web Inference Language) ;-) > > > > > > Which logically would be paired with SWALLOW ;-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Patrick > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: ext Frank van Harmelen [mailto:Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl] > > > > Sent: 22 November, 2001 23:05 > > > > To: www-webont-wg@w3.org > > > > Subject: Re: What shall we call the web ontology language?? > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael Sintek wrote: > > > > > > > > > SWOL -- Semantic Web Ontology Language > > > > > > > > Hans Akkermans (close colleague of Guus Schreiber and myself > > > > here in Amsterdam), has done his homework. You can see the results at > > > > > > > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/names.html > > > > > > > > There are more names to choose from there then we will ever need. > > > > > > > > In response to this list, Shirley Tessler and Avron Barr have > > > > suggested SOL (Standard Ontology Language), which is > > > > currently also Hans' favourite. > > > > > > > > I would have proposed XOL (XML-based Ontology Language). This > > > > would have had the advantage of dis-antagonising the > > > > folk-who-claim-you-can-do-all-of-this-in-XML, but > > > > unfortunately XOL is already in use for an XML based ontology > > > > language. > > > > > > > > So, take your pick from http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/names.html > > > > (and don't forget about SOL). > > > > > > > > Frank. > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > PS: shall we discuss our logo next ? :-) > > > > > > -- > _____________________________________________ > Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation > mailto:lobrst@mitre.org Intelligent Information Management/Exploitation > Voice: 703-883-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S W640 > Fax: 703-883-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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