- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:01:32 -0500
- To: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
In the introduction, 2nd to last paragraph, we end with an example of why "richer semantics are needed" (person/car, string quartet). The next paragraph starts "A first draft of the detailed specification..." I would like to change that last paragraph to include some words from the charter that specify what we were tasked to do (see charter quote below). This would make that last paragraph become: The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/charter"> Web Ontology Working Group charter </a> tasks the group to produce this more expressive semantics and to specify mechanisms by which the language can provide "more complex relationships between entities including: means to limit the properties of classes with respect to number and type, means to infer that items with various properties are members of a particular class, a well-defined model of property inheritance, and similar semantic extensions to the base languages." A first draft ... (rest is the same) this small change relates this document to our charter more specifically, as well as providing a pointer to the charter for those who skipped the status section. From the charter: > * A Web ontology language, that builds on current Web languages >that allow the specification of classes and subclasses, properties >and subproperties (such as RDFS), but which extends these constructs >to allow more complex relationships between entities including: >means to limit the properties of classes with respect to number and >type, means to infer that items with various properties are members >of a particular class, a well-defined model of property inheritance, >and similar semantic extensions to the base languages. > -- 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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