Re: imports issue

• From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 08:51:40 +0300
• To: www-webont-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200305270851.40272.jjc@hpl.hp.com>

> I think we should recommend to creators of large ontologies that 
> they NOT use owl:imports to the other "pieces" of the ontology, 

Yes that would work, then when you want to work with a DL style reasoner, or 
to be sure that an OWL Full reasoner is working with the whole thing you have 
a file all.owl that imports the whole lot.

>   We should caution people to use imports sparingly and only when they 
> need the "commitment" that Jeff was worried about when he raised this 
> issue.

A simple list of URIrefs and their types (owl:Class etc) possibly with an 
rdfs:comment would IMO be helpful in the scenario you paint with the cancer 
ontologies.

Jeremy

Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2003 02:51:38 UTC