- From: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Date: 2007年12月11日 14:58:17 +0100
- To: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.rpi.edu>
- Cc: "Owl Dev" <public-owl-dev@w3.org>, <boris.motik@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>, <hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>, "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Message-ID: <0EF30CAA69519C4CB91D01481AEA06A05A5996@judith.fzi.de>
Hi, Jim! Jim Hendler wrote: > So basically, we have two different groups who end up coming >at things from different directions and not meeting in the >middle. I'd love to see a fix, but I also understand the >worldview that cannot live with this. > but I'll tell you this based on experience and analysis of >lots of stuff out there - telling people that the "right >thing" to do is to use owl:class won't change much, because >the people using rdfs:class to start with generally aren't >coming from an OWL perspective, and therefore don't see a >reason to change. > So I see that if there was a solution in resolving these, we >would make it easier for people to come to OWL But please note that my "second recommendation" just targeted on this. While in my "first recommendation" I suggested to use "owl:Class" in all /new/ OWL ontologies, I also suggested that the OWL reasoner developers should change their reasoners to silently substitute occurrences of "rdfs:Class" by "owl:Class" before reasoning starts. Technically this is very simple: Just look up all triples containing "rdfs:Class" and substitute them by the same triples containing "owl:Class" instead. This is a matter of a few lines of code with JENA, for example. Cheers, Michael -- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe Abtl. Information Process Engineering (IPE) Tel : +49-721-9654-726 Fax : +49-721-9654-727 Email: Michael.Schneider@fzi.de Web : http://www.fzi.de/ipe/eng/mitarbeiter.php?id=555 FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universit舩 Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 Stiftung des b?rgerlichen Rechts Az: 14-0563.1 Regierungspr舖idium Karlsruhe Vorstand: R?diger Dillmann, Michael Flor, Jivka Ovtcharova, Rudi Studer Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent G?nther Le?nerkraus
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