- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:54:48 -0500
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
One of the requirements in the requirements document is the ability to associate properties with statements. This would require, at least, some version of reification of statements, and to work right would require a way of referring to statings. RDF has made a total hash of reification. The RDF Core WG is trying to fix this a bit, but it is probably out of their scope to make any significant improvment (as opposed to significant fix). I think that adding reification to OWL would be, at best, a significant research project and, at worst, a black hole. In any case, I don't see the motivation for the ability to associate properties with statements (in the OWL logic, at least) from the shared ontologies goal. Surely it is possible to share ontologies without associating properties with statements. Peter F. Patel-Schneider Bell Labs Research
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