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[ontolog-admin] Re: levels of specification

To: Adam Pease <adampease@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kurt Conrad <conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-admin] forum" <ontolog-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Peter P. Yim" <yimpp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:58:05 -0700
Message-id: <3F4F942D.4020102@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, Adam.    (01)

In that case, I'll leave it to Kurt to make a post, himself, to 
declare that he would want XML too.    (02)

As XML is normative for UBL, I'm certain we would end up there almost 
by default.    (03)

Cheers,
PPY
--    (04)

Adam Pease wrote Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:06:51 -0700:    (05)

> Peter,
> 
> At 09:58 AM 8/29/2003 -0700, Peter P. Yim wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Adam, for the post. I think this is real progress.
>>
>> Ref Leo's earlier post
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum//ontolog-forum/2003-08/msg00030.html#nid02
>>
>> Even OWL has multiple levels -- and not all of them are equally as 
>> expressive either.
>>
>>
>> Adam / Kurt,
>>
>> > less expressive representations include Protege and SQL
>>
>> Ref 
>> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Conference_Call_2003-08-28#nid032
>>
>> Adam, I trust you meant XML (not SQL)
> 
> 
> actually, I did mean SQL, since I think a relational database schema 
> that conforms to the ontology will be a very useful output.  Some sort 
> of XML schema is probably needed as output too.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
>> I thought that's what I heard. Kurt please verify so that Adam might 
>> straighten out the posted record.
>>
>>
>> Thanks & regards,
>> PPY
>> --     (06)

>> Adam Pease wrote Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:23:58 -0700:
>>
>> > Folks,
>> >   One point that Peter asked me to summarize from our call yesterday 
>> - we talked about having multiple output from this effort. The 
>> authoritative version of the proposed standard would be KIF, but we 
>> would translate out from KIF to other, less expressive representations 
>> include Protege and SQL.  The KIF version would be normative.  The 
>> other versions would also be normative, but incomplete, and 
>> implementors relying on the SQL version for example, would still be 
>> required to ensure that their stored procedures didn't violate the 
>> constraints stated in the KIF axioms.
>> >
>> > Adam
>> >
>>
>>
> 
>     (07)

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