Re: LANG: Proposal to close ontology versioning (ISSUE 5.14)

Jeff,

I am pretty neutral on this, but it doesn't seem like the first two get to
the important
relations, which are whether one ontology is a COMPATIBLE extension or 
and INCOMPATIBLE extension.  I.e EXTENDS vs. REPLACES.

	I propose to add the following identifiers to the OWL namespace: 
	priorVersion 
	backCompatWith 
	deprecatedClass 
	deprecatedProperty 

We can't say REPLACES.  The combination of priorVersion + backCompatibleWith

implies EXTENDS.

An interesting feature is that an ontology can say that it is a priorVersion
of some
other one.  Right?

- Mike

Michael K. Smith, Ph.D., P.E.
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Received on Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:59:00 UTC