From: mgreaves (mgreaves@darpa.mil)
Date: 08/21/03
Colleagues, As most of you already know, OWL was officially moved by the W3C into Candidate Recommendation status. See www.w3c.org <www.w3c.org> for details. This is a huge win for the program and for DARPA. My congratulations to Jim and Murray for their leadership, and to all the DAML program participants who did the heavy lifting to make this happen. Nice work! Now that OWL is the standard, I think it is important for all of the ontologies, software, tools, etc., that are funded by the DAML program to be converted from DAML+OIL to OWL. This is something that Murray directed at the last PI meeting, and I want to reiterate it. At the October PI meeting I would like all active program software and ontologies to be fully OWL. (After the PI meeting, anything that is on the DAML website and not OWL will be moved off and archived.) In addition to transitioning the DAML community to the new standard, the OWL software and ontologies that we produce can also help supply the evidence of concrete implementation that the W3C needs to move OWL the next step from Candidate Recommendation. The conversion itself should be quite easy given the massive overlap between DAML+OIL and OWL, but if you need questions answered or tool support for the conversion please email Mike Dean (mdean@bbn.com) and he can assist you. Again, great job everyone. Thanks, Mark Dr. Mark Greaves DARPA IXO/JLTO 3701 N. Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22203 (703) 526-6623 (voice) (703) 522-8916 (fax)
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