Re: owl:imports experience: took it out

> > The range of owl:imports is an owl:Ontology
> > and when we write
> >
> >   :foo owl:imports <http://example.org/ontology>.
> >
> > it is a web document!
>
> Two thoughts:
>
> 1) Where does it say that the rande of owl:imports is an owl:Ontology? I
> understand what I think you mean in English, but *literally* the range of
> owl:imports is a web document that contains a set of RDF triples, *not* a
> single object of rdf:type owl:Ontology.

What do the ontologists want? ;-)
I thought it's more like a formula written on a web document
and the formula is not the document...

> 2) An ontology seems to me to be a subclass of a web document.

Seems to you ;-)

> In either case I don't think this is a showstopper problem with
> owl:imports -- and to be clear this discussion is in the context of
removing
> owl:imports from the current version of OWL.

I think we are incomplete.

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Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Friday, 14 February 2003 20:12:43 UTC