Re: [humanmarkup-comment] modified HumanML taxonomy

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

I will insert my replies:

At 7:25 PM +0300 6/11/02, Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) wrote:
>Aren't primaries what Len abstracts under 'Toolkit'? The way I 
>understand your posts, primaries are most of the work we can do 
>without getting into "unreusable" territory.

Yes.

>About DAML + OIL, I always wanted to avoid it, although I must admit 
>that I now understand this was due myself not being able to utilize 
>it. Recent discussion on RDF-Interest shows one cannot have real 
>type validation using RDF-Schema alone. RDF Schema rules are used 
>for inference instead of validity constraints. URIs pointing to 
>schema documents are also a hack...

It's a hack, but it's all we've got for now.

>SemWeb Specs from W3C are going through rough times. Holes and 
>missing pieces are been explored. However it seems that the 
>expressive power of RDF and DAML is the best solution right now. It 
>will be hard for us to invest in Topic Maps at this point.

Yeah. I think Topic Maps will come around.

>David's post was refreshing!
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>Manos
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>Rex Brooks wrote:
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>>I'm about to go into a telecon, but we don't have to do what Len 
>>suggests now. We can do it later, once we have a set of primaries. 
>>I suggested DAML-OIL as a starting pint in a separate post.
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>>Rex
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>>At 5:58 PM +0300 6/11/02, Emmanuil Batsis (Manos) wrote:
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>>>Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
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>>>>For David's modified taxonomy to work within the current design, 
>>>>the classes need to identify the primary, then derive what he has 
>>>>now from that.
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>>>
>>>Does this mean we just use different terminology?
>>>
>>>
>>>Manos
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