Re: Labels separate from localnames (Was: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-21 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 4/21/11 3:19 PM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: Martin, Confused. Do you mean you want to change the localname (the bit after the namespace in the URI) or the label? In your examples below, you have the same string for the localname and label. This looks like a bug. Let me explain things from the

Labels separate from localnames (Was: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-21 Thread Tim Berners-Lee
Martin, Confused. Do you mean you want to change the localname (the bit after the namespace in the URI) or the label? In your examples below, you have the same string for the localname and label. This looks like a bug. Let me explain things from the point of view of the tabulator, for example,

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2011-04-21 Thread Oscar Corcho
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Re: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-21 Thread Martin Hepp
Hi Bob, Thanks! In my opinion, explicit versioning of ontologies should be avoided in general; rather, one should evolve deployed ontology in a backwards-compatible fashion only. While there is is quite some academic work on ontology versioning, fact is that in practice, if you use fine-grained

Re: Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-21 Thread Bob Ferris
Hi Martin, I think this issue is also related to ontology versioning and assigning an applied version of an ontology in a dataset (see, e.g., [1]). OWL provides some properties to describe an version of an ontology, e.g., owl:priorVersion, owl:versionIRI, owl:backwardCompatibleWith (see [2,3])

Best Practice for Renaming OWL Vocabulary Elements

2011-04-21 Thread Martin Hepp
Dear all: I am considering to rename a few conceptual elements in the GoodRelations ontology. However, they are already in use in data, queries, and applications. Thus, I am thinking of the least intrusive way of implementing this. I think this question is also relevant for many other OWL vocab