Re: Review of Guide

From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
Subject: Review of Guide
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:49:23 -0500

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> [Note: use of term knowledge base (in ref to Peter's earlier remarks) 
> - Ref defines KB consistent with use in Guide, so I'm comfortable 
> with current usage in Guide]

Reference uses ``knowledge base'' only once.  It appears that this is a
left-over use that should be changed to ``ontology''.  

Reference defines an OWL knowledge base as ``a collection of RDF triples''.
Guide defines an (OWL) knowledge base as ``[a] set of OWL assertions loaded
into a reasoning system''.  These look very different to me.



Related points:

In Reference, the pointer for RDF triples should point to RDF Concepts, not
to RDF/XML Syntax.

Guide uses ``assertion'' quite a bit but does not really define what it is.

peter

Received on Wednesday, 1 January 2003 22:47:00 UTC