Re: [Obo-discuss] Last Call: OWL 2 and rdf:text primitive datatype

[Phillip L. <phi...@ne...>]

Barry Smith <phi...@bu...> writes:
> At 04:41 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>>Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>The <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL>OWL Working Group has published new 
>>Working Drafts for OWL 2, a language for building Semantic Web ontologies.
>
> The documentation of
>
>>OWL 2 (a compatible extension of OWL 1) consists of 13 documents (7 
>>technical, 4 instructional, and 2 group Notes). 



Barry

W3C produces recommendation and specifications. OWL therefore is a
specification, not the technology that implements it. Adding in "The
documentation of" to this sentance is, therefore, an example of Stove's
worst argument in the world; we can never see OWL as it really is, just
it's documentation. 


>> This is a "Last Call" for the 
>>technical materials and is an opportunity for the community to 
>>confirm that these documents satisfy requirements for
>
> serving as a specification of
>
>>an ontology language. 

Ditto (almost). 

>>In addition, the <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL>OWL Working Group and 
>>the <http://www.w3.org/2005/rules>Rule Interchance Format (RIF) 
>>Working Group have jointly published a Last Call Working Draft of 
>>rdf:text: A Datatype for Internationalized Text.
>
>
> can't be right, I aver
> a datatype for text comprehending multiple languages ?


A datatype for describing unambiguously the usage of multiple different
languages. The general experience is that understanding what language
a piece of text uses is valuable when trying to understand it. 



Phil