summary on feature synopsis document (ACTION from last telecon)

This attempts to be an executive summary of the comments on the feature
synopsis document.

It is a followon to a previous summary [1].
It is broken into language design comments and document form comments.

A few themes emerge:
- positive feedback on both Full OWL and OWL Lite
- plea for special names for limited cardinalities (this may be along
the lines of the original proposed naming scheme)
- perhaps remove symmetric and transitive from OWL Lite
- previous theme of a request for hasValue in OWL Lite as well as oneof

Design comments
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Bobrow:
- strongly positive on both Full OWL and OWL Light
- plea for special names for ltd. cardinalities
- perhaps remove symmetric and transitive

MacGregor:
- overall
- introduce special names for ltd cardinalities in OWL Light
- emphasise lack of upward compatability with RDF(S)
- remove transitive and symmetric from OWL Light
- put list-constructors from DAML+OIL back in
- drop Full OWL, and stop at OWL Light

Euzenat:
- introduce special names for ltd cardinalities in OWL Light
- provide a general "metadata for ontologies" placeholder,
  rather than deciding on specific pieces of metadata.

Emery:
- overal positive feedback
- OWL Lite is wrong name (doesn't suggest stepping stone to Full OWL)
- a number of fixable (fixed) small problems

Elaroussi:
- confusion on RDF/OWL relation
  (is every RDF doc an OWL doc, or vice versa?)

Kiryakov:
- technical problem with Importing terms from RDF/RDFS"
  (as done in the DAML+OIL def.) fix provided


Form comments:
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Uschold:
- provide quick difference lists between DAML+OIL and OWL/OWL Light

Euzenat:
- decide between writing a primer or a reference card
- various style comments

Emery:
- avoid "Individual" as a word

Becket:
- various style/formatting/fixable comments


[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Aug/0097.html


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