ISSUE: owl:Class still needed

• From: Mike Dean <mdean@bbn.com>
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:08:13 -0400
• To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200207180008.UAA21084@cam-mbx1.bbn.com>

TITLE:  owl:Class still needed

DESCRIPTION:

  The introduction of daml:Class as a subclass of rdfs:Class
  was largely motivated by the fact that rdfs:Class
  prohibited cycles.  The W3C RDF Core WG recently removed
  this restriction.  Is there still a need for a separate
  owl:Class?

  Issue 5.1 [1] also discusses this distinction, but is more
  appropriately focused on the disjointness of
  ObjectProperty and DatatypeProperty.

RAISED BY:  Mike Dean

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/webont-issues.html#I5.1-Uniform-treatment-of-literal-data-values

Received on Wednesday, 17 July 2002 20:08:44 UTC