- From: Guus Schreiber <schreiber@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:04:43 +0100
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Jeremy Carroll wrote: > >>This incorporates a suggestion from Dave Beckett [1] to change >>rdfs:seeAlso to rdfs:isDefinedBy. I remember some problems with the >>latter option, but cannot recollect the details. Any thoughts? > > > I remember Peter being very against isDefinedBy when the social meaning > question was still up in the air (I suppose it still is, but not quite as > high up) > > I am not sure whether the WG home page defines anything very much ... seeAlso > seems less committed. Personally I guess I see the terms as defined by S&AS, > and would feel more comfortable with the isDefinedBy if it pointed to that > (not sure whether it should be the dated or undated version though). > > Jeremy > Dan Connolly wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 23:22, Guus Schreiber wrote: > [...] > >>> Rationale: >>> - pointer to WG home page should be sufficient > > > > no, the Working Group is a temporary phenomenon; the ontology > is defined by the specs, which last much longer. They > might be maintained by a different working group in the > future. > > I think it's important to cite the dated normative specs, > and useful to point to the latest version of > the informative specs. > Given the comments by Jeremy and Dan, I have updated the header of the RDF schema for OWL in the following way: [[ <Ontology rdf:about=""> <imports rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema"/> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-owl-semantics-20031209/" /> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-owl-test-20031209/" /> <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-owl-features-20031209/" /> <rdfs:comment>This file specifies in RDF Schema format the ]] So, the schema links to the dated versions of the two normative documents and the informative overview document. I can live with changing "isDefinedBy" to "seeAlso", if there are objections (Peter?). As I cannot access the DAML site, the draft PR version of the full schema can be found at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/public/owl.rdf Guus -- Free University Amsterdam, Computer Science De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31 20 444 7739/7718 E-mail: schreiber@cs.vu.nl Home page: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~guus/
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