Evan, (01)
> There is no "canonical form" for serializing an OWL model in rdf/xml. (02)
A huge hole for cooperative development of a model. (03)
> Do people anticipate changes in the serialized form to be a problem? (04)
Yes. I would like to use tools that can track changes to a set of
documents, knowing who's been making changes and what changes have been
made. (05)
I'm offering to put up a server that is running Trac [1] with a
Mercurial [2] repository that would allow us to cooperate on documents.
There is a bit of a learning curve, but I think we can cooperatively
work out issues in short order. (06)
Anyone can put anything in the repository they want, and key for me is
that I can get an updated version of what everyone has contributed in a
simple way. (07)
As part of this development, I would also like to use tools that can
"build" and "test" this ontology against a set of use cases. The errors
and warnings from the build/test/validate test results can feed into
tickets to make sure issues and problems are assigned to specific
individuals or groups and resolved. (08)
For example, if I'm running TopBraid and change something to an
owl:InverseFunctionalProperty and post it, everyone is notified of the
change, that I made it, and when I run Pellet [3] or some other
reasoner, it tells me I'm an idiot. Or something more kind. (09)
If I make a change to our eventual publication (and please allow it to
be RTF or Open Office or something other than binary Microsoft Word
files), that should be clear as well. (010)
I see a lot of this work as very similar to programming, but then again,
I'm a programmer :-). (011)
Joel (012)
[1] <http://trac.edgewall.org/>
[2] <http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/>
[3] <http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/> (013)
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