- From: Michael Sintek <sintek@dfki.uni-kl.de>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:31:56 +0100 (MET)
- To: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- cc: <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, tim finin wrote:
> How about calling the language OM, standing for Ontology Markup.
>
> OM is, of course, the sacred sound from Hinduism, and represents the
Hi,
OM also means "Organizational Memory" which is an area where
ontologies play a major role [1]. We should therefore avoid this term.
What about:
SWOL -- Semantic Web Ontology Language
Michael
[1] Luder van Elst, Andreas Abecker:
Domain Ontology Agents in Distributed Organizational Memories
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/450299.html
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