- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:35:38 -0400
- To: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-webont-wg@w3.org
Chair hat on: Hendler, please take this discussion to rdf-logic as it doesn't impact WG issues that are open and has long ceased to be directly related to our response to Ms. Golbeck. Chair hat off: Ian, my response to the below can be found on www-rdf-logic. At 2:11 PM +0100 6/17/03, Ian Horrocks wrote: >On June 17, Jim Hendler writes: >> >> >> > >> >> In certain contexts, I think OWL would be useful with some ontologies >> >> preimported. >> > >> >Well, this would not be OWL. >> >> With due respect Peter, this must either be the dumbest thing I ever >> heard you say or, more likely, we're somehow not understanding each >> other. Most of our tools enable the user to start with ontologies > ===== > ===== > >What you describe here are OWL tools, not the OWL language. > >If I were Dan, what I would do is produce a <<tool>> that checked on >the usage of namespaces in an OWL ontology and automatically added >the import statements that I wanted. This would allow my applications >to work the way I wanted using reasoning that would still be sound >w.r.t. the OWL language spec. > >Regards, Ian > > > > >> pre-imported -- for example we are building a cancer research project >> that starts from the NCI OWL Lite ontology. It comes preloaded. If, >> on the other hand, we started from having the user hit a button and >> import that ontology, it would not come preloaded. I cannot see how >> this would make any difference to whether something is OWL or not. >> >> My suspicion is there is some deeper issue which you are responding >> to. If we're just arguing about how the term "is OWL" is used, then >> it isn't worth much time, because the use of our vocabulary is out of >> our control once we publish it. >> >> -JH >> >> -- >> Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu >> Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 >> Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) >> Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 *** 240-277-3388 (Cell) >> http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler *** NOTE CHANGED CELL NUMBER *** -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 *** 240-277-3388 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler *** NOTE CHANGED CELL NUMBER ***
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