- From: Jim Hendler <james.hendler@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 11:22:43 -0500
- To: Stefan Decker <stefan@db.stanford.edu>, Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 8:52 PM -0800 11/24/01, Stefan Decker wrote: >Hi, > >Dieter Fensel has suggested to use WOL >as an acronym for "Web Ontology Language" - which >I think captures more what we want to do and is in >sync with working emerging groups and topic like "Web Services" >and also connects to the existing Web. > >Any name that includes "XML" in it's name leads into the wrong >direction - XML-based is not a primarily feature of the intended >Ontology Language (comes for free though). > >All the best, > > Stefan > I agree with Stefan that anything starting with X for XML is problematic in one way, but also that satrting with R for RDF could be considered problematic in other ways WOL is pretty straightforward and works (and has 3 letters, so it would work as a mime type). If we went for the 4 letter we could do WOML or WODL for Web Ontology Markup Language or Web Ontology Description Languages - which I don't love, but maybe someone can think of someting interesting starting with those? -JH -- 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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