Re: newbie question regarding service profiles

Ryan,

As you noted, DAML-S is being designed to be very general in nature,
so we left the range of degreeOfQuality to be "Thing."  Since classes
a service provider/user might define are a subclass of Thing, it
enables users such as yourself to define a range class for
degreeOfQuality that meets your needs.  Over time, a number of these
will likely emerge, as notions of "quality" and/or "authentication"
become more prevalent on the Web.  I suggest you make your own.  The
DAML community is always looking for more ontologies.

Sheila McIlraith
for the DAML Services Coalition 

> Hello,
>
> Got a newbie question.  Is there a DAML ontology for use in the
> ranges of the Functional Attributes in a Service Profile?  For
> example, "degreeOfQuality" has a DAML "Thing" as its range.
> However, has anybody defined an ontology that would serve as a
> degreeOfQuality range?
>
> I know these ranges are suppose to stay relatively open, since we
> don't want to force developers into tight type ranges, but I would
> still be under the assumption that some type of range classification
> for these properites would have to exist.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
>
>
>
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