- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:34:02 -0500
- To: HENDLER@cs.umd.edu
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
One thing that I would like to have a web ontology language useful for is to access electronic services by characteristics, not tokens. The above is a strange way of stating what I want, but I'm trying to differentiate the requirement from two different requirements. On the lower end, I don't want a language that can just look up services by atomic tokens, even if they are arranged in a taxonomy and even if there is typing information about the inputs and outputs of the service. This task can be handled by the current proposals (UDDI, etc.). On the upper end, although I would eventually want such a language, I don't want the ontology language to include a full formalism for how a service works. The ontology language is there to allow characteristics of the service to be represented, e.g., this is a travel service that accepts foreign money transfers, not details of the how the service is effected. The sort of thing that one might want to find out using the ontology language is whether there is a service that can find travel services that produce anonymous flight tickets with payment made in the form of overseas bank transfers Peter F. Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research
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