- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:39:34 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, "Smith, Michael K" <michael.smith@eds.com>
- Cc: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
At 4:30 PM -0600 10/29/02, Dan Connolly wrote: > >I find some of the recent design discussion interesting, and >I'm still mulling over the 9Oct suggestion from Hayes... >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Oct/0057.html > >but I just ran this by my colleagues again, and my position >is still that we should POSTPONE this issue; take >it out of owl until the next version. > >[snip] > >I hope folks will consider whether they could live >without a standardized design for this feature for >a year or so. > While I would prefer to resolve than postpone this (and any other) issue, I could live with it. However, I do believe it would mean that we would have to demote R3 from requirement to Objective: >R3. Explicit ontology extension > > Ontologies must be able to explicitly extend other ontologies in >order to reuse terms while adding new classes and properties. >Ontology extension must be a transitive relation; if ontology A >extends ontology B, and ontology B extends ontology C, then ontology >A implicitly extends ontology C as well. > > Motivation: Shared ontologies I'd hate to see us start to demote too many of these... -- 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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