Use of DAML+OIL/SkiCal and iCalendar in DAML+OIL

[Alan Rector]

Tony - Dan, Libby and Greg

Thanks to Tony for bringing the paper to our attention.

A question for the authors...

Most of the issues concern namespaces and equivalence which I
shall leave to Sean.

Towards the end of the paper you have an almost throw away comment
that

    "Another significant problem was the awkward syntax and limited
expressivity..."

Leaving aside the awkward syntax, I would be curious to know specific
examples of the  problems with expressivity in your concrete
task.  The reference to Pat Hayes isn't helpful because I know
his theoretical position.  The question is, "What happens in practice?"

I know which things have caused problems in  building
biomedical ontologies.  I think it is very important to know, concretely,
what causes  problems to others in other fields.
Otherwise we are arguing without evidence.

Thanks

Alan

--
Alan L Rector
Professor of Medical Informatics
Department of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL, UK
TEL: +44-161-275-6188/6239/7183
FAX: +44-161-275-6204
email: rector at cs.man.ac.uk
web: www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig
        www.opengalen.org




Tony Linde wrote:

> Ran across this paper at:
>   http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk/discovery/2002/03/skical-daml/
>
> It deals with applying DAML+OIL approach to an existing application
> (SkiCal). I'd be interested to get Sean's comments on how they
> approached the problem and their conclusions about DAML+OIL.
>
> (I'll be glad when OWL takes over - it's easier to type!)
>
> Cheers,
> Tony.
>
> __
> Tony Linde                       Phone:  +44 (0)116 223 1292
> AstroGrid Project Manager        Fax:    +44 (0)116 252 3311
> Dept of Physics & Astronomy      Mobile: +44 (0)7753 603356
> University of Leicester          Email:  tol at star.le.ac.uk
> Leicester, UK   LE1 7RH          Web:    http://www.astrogrid.org
>