Re: Reminder: Imports task force meeting monday 10AM EST

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Reminder: Imports task force meeting monday 10AM EST
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:09:46 -0500

> No formal agenda - we will review the proposals on the table and work towards consensus.
> 
> The page is http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Imports has the list of current proposals.
> 
> Please make sure that page has pointers to any materials you consider relevant.
> 
> -Alan

The last edits to http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Imports, by Jeremy
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Imports&diff=3253&oldid=3242
and Boris
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Imports&diff=3273&oldid=3253
seem to indicate a coalescing around the "Imports by Location" proposal
http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Imports#Imports_is_by_Location_.28with_Version_extension.29


Here is the proposal variant that Boris put on the Wiki page on 6
Feburary with a few minor changes by me:

	Imports in OWL 1.1 are "by ___location and name": if an ontology O
	contains a statement "Import( someURI )", then "someURI"
	specifies the ___location of the imported ontology---that is, an
	OWL 1.1 implementation should access the ontology at the
	___location "someURI" using the standard Internet protocols. The
	ontology located in this way MUST have the ontologyURI equal to
	"someURI".

	In some cases, however, an application might want to retrieve
	[an] imported ontology from some other ___location; this can be the
	case, for example, in order to implement some form of off-line
	ontology caching. In this case, an OWL 1.1 implementation MAY
	choose to replace the above described resolution mechanism with
	a [different] mechanism that from "someURI" determines the
	ontology's ___location. Regardless of what mechanism is used, the
	ontology located through it MUST have the ontologyURI equal to
	"someURI".

This looks fine to me, modulo handling versions.

peter

Received on Friday, 7 March 2008 15:12:59 UTC