- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:41:03 -0400
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 10:05 AM -0400 6/19/02, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >As I was reading Guus's agenda for the face-to-face, it occured to me that >there is very little information there about planning for the future. >There is a session partly reserved for this, but no background or plan is >given for this session. I feel that without some background and a plan, >this session will not be productive. > >My proposal is that this session should be mostly devoted to planning with >respect to finishing the definition of OWL. The documents currently being >developed in the working group do not form a complete definition of OWL and >the missing sections need to be filled in very soon. > >I am thus providing a proposal for filling in these missing sections. > >[snip] > > >These leave three portions of OWL unspecified: > >M1 What is an OWL KB in triple form, and, more importantly, what > collections of triples are not OWL KBs? > >M2 What is the translation from the abstract syntax to triples? > >M3 What is the formal meaning of an OWL KB? > [snip] Not to comment on the above, but I think you leave a few things out in the "completion" of OWL - let's not forget 1) Required*: Guide and walkthru documents 2) Required*: Test cases and implementations (needed for Last Call) 3) Optional**: Any other non-normative syntaxes other people wish to publish 4) Optional***: Axiomatic Semantics (in KIF or other format) *: min-cardinality = 1 **: no cardinality specification ***: max-cardinality = 1 -- 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) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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