- From: Deborah McGuinness <dlm@KSL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:47:52 -0700
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- CC: Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl, www-webont-wg@w3.org
"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote: > From: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl> > Subject: Re: WOWG: agenda Aug 15 telecon > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:58:37 +0200 > > > > > Further to my summary of the contributions to public comments list, > > two new messages arrived today, both of which are also relevant to the > > semantics discussion also on the agenda for today: > > > > Message [1] points out a bug in the DAML+OIL spec that we are about to be > > bitten by as well if we don't take care. (Essentially the current DAML+OIL > > spec of sameClassAs forces its arguments to be of type daml:Class, > > even if without that statement they would only be of type rdfs:Class). > > My understanding is that this was a feature, not a bug. The use of > sameClassAs in importing terms from RDF/RDFS is thus the bug. > > > Message [2] shows the confusion people have about the relation between RDF > > and OWL: is every OWL document an RDFS document (as our working documents > > state), or is it the other way around (as the author believes it to be the > > case). > > Yes, this is a potential source of confusion. We will have to do extra > work in this area. > we previously had more detail in the feature synopsis on this point where we made a statement about valid OWL statements being valid RDF statements but we felt a need to be more general in our statements. maybe a course would be to provide a pointer to another page that gives more detail on the relationship and provides some simple examples if we can find some that we consider simple. > > > Food for the teleconf today. > > > > Frank. > > ---- > > > > [1] > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2002Aug/0022.html > > > > [2] > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2002Aug/0023.html > > peter -- Deborah L. McGuinness Knowledge Systems Laboratory Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) 801 705 0941
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