the relationships between OWL species (was Re: OWL, XML-RDF and Imports)

From: Sean Bechhofer <seanb@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: OWL, XML-RDF and Imports
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:58:43 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

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> An RDF/XML document is an OWL-Full document if it obeys some rules, for
> example, to quote a quote in a recent mail from Dan C:
> 
> "An OWL Full document is an RDF/XML document [RDF/XML Syntax], for which
> the corresponding RDF graph [RDF Concepts] does not use any URI references
> starting with the prefix http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl# except those found
> in the [RDF Schema for OWL]."
>  -- http://www.w3.org/2002/03owlt/editors-draft/snapshot#docConformance

Hmm.  This appears to make it be the case that
1/ not all RDF graphs are OWL Full documents and
2/ not all OWL Full documents are OWL DL documents.
I believe that the working group has resolved that neither of these should
be the case. 

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peter

Received on Sunday, 16 February 2003 09:05:22 UTC