- From: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:46:15 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: WebOnt <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 16:38, Jeff Heflin wrote: > > Dan Connolly wrote: > > > It is > > essentially a knowledge hyperlink, and thus removing it is like saying > > "can we please take the <a href> tags out of HTML." > > > > Although we've had this argument before in other threads in other > > discussion groups, let me make another attempt at persuading you. > > Well, this explanation is sorta appealing, but it doesn't tell > me enough to code it up. [perhaps you did, I see, upon > reading more closely.] > > Can you point me to the code the implements USE-ONTOLOGY? Sure, but I don't know how much it will help since SHOE is a different animal from RDF. All of the SHOE code can be downloaded from: : http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/downloads/ > Can you explain how, if you took that code out, users would lose? If I took the code out, then users wouldn't get any benefits of ontologies at all. They wouldn't get any of the subclass/superclass relationships, the if/then axioms, etc. > Elsewhere in this thread (10 Sep 2002 17:48:44 -0400), you say: > > | I wasn't suggesting that ontologies should be in the domain of > | discourse. I'd actually prefer that they weren't. > > Yikes! How do we give them titles, dates, authors, etc. > if we can't talk about them? Maybe you mean to distinguish > ontologies from ontology documents or something? I don't > think I understand you. I mean not in the OWL domain of discourse. To do the things you talk about, they would obviously have to be in the RDF domain of discourse. Jeff
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