- From: Jim Hendler <james.hendler@verizon.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:45:51 -0500
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Web Ontology Working Group members - The language we are to recommend from our working group is as yet unnamed. Our predecessor languages (see charter) include SHOE: Simple HTML Ontology Extensions OIL: (various acronyms - Ontology Interchange Level one of them) DAML: DARPA agent Markup Language none of which really apply. We've come to be called WebOnt by default, but there's no reason we need to use that. We could use a new name (ONT or such), use a "qualified" name - RDF-ONT (ala XML-schema), or even endorse DAML+OIL (which would be politically expedient in the short term, but is probably not recommended as the way to go). This name will come to be known on the web, will probably be used as our name space (i.e. webont:restrictedClass) etc. so it is worth some consideration. We need a resolution by our first publication in the February time frame - whatever language we use then is likely to stick -JH p.s. I am not 100% sure we completely control this issue - I suspect whatever name we use will need to be approved by the W3C membership or director in some way. FOr now, let's ignore that and see if we can come to consensus amongst ourselved. -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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