- From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl>
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 13:19:09 +0200
- To: Jonathan Borden <jonathan@openhealth.org>
- CC: www-webont-wg@w3c.org
Jonathan Borden wrote: [..] > I am not at all convinced that OWL-Lite would serve the needs of the medical > community, which has a large use of DL e.g. SNOMED. I think that if OWL > can't capture SNOMED etc. then it will fail this community in the long term, > and well, thus my interest in this project will plummet.. I think that > OWL-Full would likely capture SNOMED ... perhaps Ian who has alot of > experience in medical ontologies can better answer this. In any case for my > personal needs, any subset of OWL that can capture SNOMED (for example, not > neccessarily exactly SNOMED, but at least something alot like it) would be > fine by me ... this is my own line in the sand ... so short of some real > evidence that OWL-Lite is able to capture, again for example, SNOMED, I > strongly oppose stopping there. Jonathan, This could a very relevant example. Would it be possible for you to indicate what OWL features you need for representing SNOMED. We could do with more of these examples. Guus [..]
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