- From: <herman.ter.horst@philips.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:33:59 +0100
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Abstract: As was also mentioned by Guus, OWL Full should be mentioned. -- Introduction (and table of contents): It should also be mentioned in the introduction what Appendix A.2 does, or, better, in the current state, intends to do. We discussed already earlier that the entire semantics document does not contain the word normative. What comes most close is still the following part of the introduction: "Appendix A contains a proof that the direct and RDFS-compatible semantics have the same consequences on OWL ontologies that correspond to abstract OWL ontologies that separate OWL individuals, OWL classes, OWL properties, and the RDF, RDFS, and OWL structural vocabulary. For such OWL ontologies the direct model theory is authoritative and the RDFS-compatible model theory is secondary." The appendices contain the word "informative" in their title. Since not all of Sections 2 to 5 is normative, I believe that it is a good idea to add to the (sub)section names the words normative and informative where appropriate. -- Abstract Syntax: When you read the later sections on direct semantics and mapping to RDF graphs, you often need to refer back to the abstract syntax, especially the OWL DL syntax (never the Lite syntax). It is then inconvenient that the OWL DL syntax is described by modification of OWL Lite syntax. I noted that in fact, Section 2.3.2 on OWL DL axioms gives the OWL DL axioms almost completely: only the last part of the property axioms is missing. I suggest to add therefore 1) the following sentence to Section 2.3.2.4: As in OWL Lite, the following axioms make several properties be equivalent, or make one property be a sub-property of another: ... . and 2) to add to the first paragraph of Section 2.3 that However, Section 2.3.2 lists the OWL DL axioms completely. This simple change would greatly facilitate reading the later parts of the document (compare also my remarks about the section on mapping to RDF graphs).
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