- From: Frank van Harmelen <Frank.van.Harmelen@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:23:11 +0100
- To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
As per our action item from March 7, we have prepared a first language
proposal, for discussion in this weeks teleconf, and as the basis for further
work by the language focus group.
At http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-proposal/
you will find three documents:
- A short motivation of our design and choices (2pgs)
- An annotated example to give you the flavour (walkthrough) (5pgs)
- The language definition as a simple grammar (5pgs)
We suggest you read the documents in this order.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Our proposal for the OWL Knowledge Base Language comes in two parts:
1. The first ("light") part is loosely based on the frame idiom found in the
frame-style systems that have been used in AI for decades. This idiom has been
extended with commonly found ontology modelling idioms and a number of
features that are important in the Web context.
This "light" version will provide a lower entry threshold to the language,
while still providing much of the required expressiveness.
2. The second ("full") part is very close DAML+OIL.
Peter Patel-Schneider,
Ian Horrocks
Frank van Harmelen.
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