Re: S&AS: Treatment of imports in RDF-Compatible Semantics

>Jim Hendler wrote:
>>
>>  At 4:15 AM -0400 5/22/03, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>  >From: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
>>  >Subject: Re: S&AS: Treatment of imports in RDF-Compatible Semantics
>>  >Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 03:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
>>  >
>>  >>  Yes, there is an oversight here.  I propose, however, to instead use
>>  >>
>>  >>    Definitions: Let K and Q be imports-closed collections of RDF graphs.
>>  >>    [... as before]
>>  >>
>>  >>  peter
>>  >
>>  >On further reflection, I propose to leave the definition the same, but to
>>  >add wording to the effect that entailment is best carried out on
>>  >imports-closed collections, as follows:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  ><p>
>>  >OWL Full entailment as defined here is not the service that should be
>>  >provided by OWL tools.  Instead, OWL tools should provide a service that
>>  >first computes the imports closures and then determines whether one
>>  >imports-closed collection entails the other.
>>  ></p>
>>  >
>>  >peter
>>
>>  I would oppose that - we have continually avoided expressing things
>>  in processing terms, and I definitely do not want a reference to what
>>  OWL tools should do in a normative document.   I'm much happier with
>>  the first solution above.
>>    -JH
>  >
>
>I also prefer the "Let K and Q be imports-closed collections of RDF
>graphs." wording.

Me too.

Pat

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