- From: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:05:37 -0500
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- CC: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
This seems like a good change to me. If no one has a strong objection, the editors will accept the change. Jeff Jim Hendler wrote: > > 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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