On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Nathan <nat...@webr3.org> wrote: <snip/> > Something else that keeps coming up, a subset of owl always comes in to > conversations, obviously owl:sameAs - there was a proposal from one Jim > Hendler [1] at a RDF workshop thing to perhaps do something about moving > these up a level to RDFS. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws31 > > Didn't seem to get much feedback or thoughts (afaik), but given the climate > perhaps it's worth giving some strong consideration to as a community. > > (Or just doing because it's a bloody good idea & would remove OWL from > virtually every conversation we end up having).
I agree with this. In particular, I'd love to see an equivalent to owl:sameAs in the rdfs namespace, probably with a more intuitive name, like rdfs:equals. It would take OWL out of a lot of conversations. There weren't any accepted proposals for working on RDFS at the workshop, but that doesn't mean it can't still be done. However, it would need a lot of public support if this were to be considered. If people are interested, they should voice their opinions. Regards, Paul Gearon