ISSUE: Ontology versioning

TITLE: Ontology versioning

DESCRIPTION:
The Requirements Document states that ontology evolution is an important
design goal and that versioning information is a requirement for OWL.
However, DAML+OIL has very limitied support for versioning information.
It only has a tag called "daml:versionInfo" which contains an
unstructured string. To support machine processing, OWL needs explict
structured information related to versions, such as capabilities to
point to prior versions, specify backward-compatibility, and to
deprecate terms (i.e., state that they are available for
backwards-compatibility only).

RAISED BY: Jeff Heflin (heflin@cse.lehigh.edu)

DATE: 22 MAY 2002

STATUS: RAISED

REFERENCE:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webont-req-20020307/#goal-evolution
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webont-req-20020307/#req-versioning

Received on Wednesday, 22 May 2002 10:58:36 UTC