- From: Enrico Motta <e.motta@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:48:45 +0000
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Frank, > >Frank van Harmelen wrote: >After living with DAML+OIL for almost a year now, and having talked >to lots of people who have used it (and even more people who >haven't), I am getting pretty convinced that we got the 80/20 >balance wrong in DAML+OIL: 20% of the primitives account for 80% of >the usage/required expressive power, and the other primitives >contribute to a pretty high step-in cost. I would suggest we reduce >the language to deal with these issues. > >Also, we have lost rather too much of the "frame-style" modelling in >the language. Too often DAML+OIL requires a significant mental shift >before one can express the intended knowledge. > >I don't think either of these points will require a whole-sale redesign. > >I am willing to contribute to both of these issues. I would be very interested in contributing to this work Enrico -- Enrico Motta, PhD Director, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1908 653800 Fax: +44 1908 653169 http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~enrico
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