- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 20:51:03 -0400
- To: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, Christopher Welty <welty@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 5:42 PM -0400 9/19/02, Jeff Heflin wrote: >Chris, > >Just to refresh everyone's memory, this discussion began because of the >proposals for handling imports that are based in XML/RDF syntactic >inclusion. My whole point is that in every approach I've seen so far, >this form of inclusion loses track of which statements come from which >ontologies. In these cases, I no longer have the URLs of the documents; >they were lost when one document was inserted into another. If all OWL >parsers must perform this kind of inclusion, then people like me lose >the ability to do the things I mentioned. > >Note, I was not arguing that we need to modify RDF or OWL in some >radical way so that the model inherently includes source information >(I'll save that battle for OWL 2.0 :-). I simply want to make sure we >have solutions that don't prevent people who need source information >from doing what they want. > >Jeff Jeff - wouldn't rdfs:IsDefinedBy [1] work? - JH [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/#ch_isdefinedby -- 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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