Re: Joint Committee telecon tomorrow 2 April

From: Deborah McGuinness ([email protected])
Date: 04/02/02

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    since we expect to discuss owl light discussion, i am cross posting my
    webont response to the first proposal here.
    
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-webont-wg/2002Mar/0323.html
    
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                 Re: WOWG: first language proposal
            Date:
                 Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:25:11 -0800
    
    Thanks for your work on the proposal.
    I have been offline but am back now and am making comments on the
    proposal.
    
    I totally support the motivation of getting the frame-like qualities
    back in the
    language and am mostly in agreement with the first sketch
    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-sketch.html
    
    Although I would make some tweaks.
    One general question is how did things end up in point 2 � the
    frame-part
    Vs. point 3 � the axiomatic part?
    
    I would like for one motivation for the distinction to be to include the
    portions
    in the frame part that are expected to be used routinely by the general
    public.
    I would claim a secondary motivation is to attempt to include the
    �standard�
    notions in the �average� frame system in this class.
    
    If you buy into this motivation, then I think we should include value
    restrictions
    in the frame part.  I would also consider putting non qualified number
    restrictions in this portion.   I have analyzed a lot of dl knowledge
    bases as
    well as a lot of frame knowledge bases (in particular in classic,
    assorted other
    dl kbs, okbc, ontolingua, snark, etc.) and find that value restrictions
    and at
    least min cardinality 1 and quite often max cardinality show
    up with great frequency.
    
    If we keep this mentality, it is not clear that inverse, transitivity,
    and
    disjointness must stay in the frame part although it would be my
    preference to
    keep them there.
    
    In http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-proposal/motivation.html
    Some cardinality is reintroduced which I support.
    The proposal would allow min card 1 & max card 1 but would NOT allow
    mincard 1 and
    max card 2 in the frame portion.
    I think it is a common frame notion to include this second thing and it
    is also a
    common frame representive issue to allow exactly 2 values.
    I do not require this in the light frame portion but I would like not to
    make
    people go over to the axiom portion to state this.
    
    I also support that
    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-proposal/motivation.html
    includes local range of property.  I think this is critically important
    to have in
    the �easier frame portion�   and my reading of the first sketch did not
    allow it.
    
    I am not in support of only 2 parts � the very light frame part and the
    axiom
    part.
    I am in support of 3 parts
    � the light frame part,
    - the more comprehensive frame part  (including things like max
    cardinality or
    exact cardinality other than single-valued)
    - the axiom part.
    
    If people agree with this breakdown.  I am willing pick up joint editing
    
    responsibility of the language proposal with the new break down.
    
     If you prefer no additional editors but like the proposal, I am willing
    to do a
    separate phone discussion or provide separate input to generate the next
    round.
    
    deborah
    
    Frank van Harmelen wrote:
    
    > As per our action item from March 7, we have prepared a first language
    
    > proposal, for discussion in this weeks teleconf, and as the basis for
    further
    > work by the language focus group.
    >
    > At http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-proposal/
    > you will find three documents:
    >
    > - A short motivation of our design and choices (2pgs)
    > - An annotated example to give you the flavour (walkthrough) (5pgs)
    > - The language definition as a simple grammar (5pgs)
    >
    > We suggest you read the documents in this order.
    >
    > EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
    >
    > Our proposal for the OWL Knowledge Base Language comes in two parts:
    >
    > 1. The first ("light") part is loosely based on the frame idiom found
    in the
    > frame-style systems that have been used in AI for decades. This idiom
    has been
    > extended with commonly found ontology modelling idioms and a number of
    
    > features that are important in the Web context.
    > This "light" version will provide a lower entry threshold to the
    language,
    > while still providing much of the required expressiveness.
    >
    > 2. The second ("full") part is very close DAML+OIL.
    >
    > Peter Patel-Schneider,
    > Ian Horrocks
    > Frank van Harmelen.
    >     ----
    
    
    
    Mike Dean wrote:
    
    > We'll have our weekly telecon tomorrow (April 2) from 4-5pm
    > EST, 1-2pm PST, and corresponding times in other locations.
    >
    > The dial-in numbers are
    >
    >   U.S.:  800-955-9331
    >
    >   outside U.S.:  +1-904-779-4741
    >
    >   If you're asked, the chairperson is Jack Cater (one of my
    >   coworkers) or Mike Dean.
    >
    > A parallel logged IRC session will be available on the
    > #joint-committee channel at irc.daml.org (see
    > https://www.daml.org/irc/ for the server password).
    >
    > Below is a draft agenda; additions are welcome.
    >
    >       Mike
    >
    > agenda updates/additions
    >
    > announcements
    >
    > minutes deferred
    >
    > report from AAAI Spring Symposium Series [1] (? - 10 min)
    >
    > DQL news (Richard, et al - 20 min)
    >
    > 695 first proposal [2] (Peter, Ian, Frank, et al - 20 min)
    >
    > next week
    >
    >   cancel due to WebOnt F2F?
    >
    > [1] http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/2002/sss-02.html
    >
    > [2] http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/spool/OWL-first-proposal/
    
    --
     Deborah L. McGuinness
     Knowledge Systems Laboratory
     Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241
     Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020
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