- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:24:36 -0500
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, lobrst@mitre.org
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 2:09 PM -0500 11/15/02, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >From: Leo Obrst <lobrst@mitre.org> >Subject: Web Ontology Language (OWL)? >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:20:22 -0500 > >> >> Many of our documents have the title: "Web Ontology Language (OWL) ...". >> Did we make a decision to NOT expand the acronym correctly? >> >> Thanks, >> Leo > >Not exactly. OWL is the name of our language. It is a Web Ontology >Language. There was, I believe, a decision to have the document titles >read "Web Ontology Language (OWL) ..." instead of "The OWL Web Ontology >Language ...". > >If you want to explain OWL as an acronym, you could even refer to OWL in >Winnie the Pooh. (In fact, that might be a good quote for the guide. >Unfortunately, I don't have access to the actual quote.) > > > > >peter Yes, you sure do have access to the actual quote it's in our archives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Sep/0301.html -- 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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