[Person-ontology] OWL for exchanging ontologies

[Schoening, James R Mr CIV USA AMC]

Paul,

	There is a broad misconception that OWL was meant to be a
standard language for developing ontologies.  Rather, it was meant more
for exchanging them.  So, Higgins could use a more-expressive language
for development, for internal inferencing, for exchange with compliant
associates, and then could tranlate down to OWL for exchange with
others.

	Here's a quote from Jim Hendler, who is a guru in this field:

Jim Hendler:  "So, let me go back to OWL for a second, see I have a very
different view of OWL than some people, which may sound funny to some
people. I don't view OWL as an ontology language per se or as a very
good KR language. OWL is a language for exchanging ontologies much more
than a specific language; so if I'm dong my own application, I view OWL
as the way I export and import knowledge from other people, I don't view
it as the only thing I'm allowed to use on the whole world for
knowledge. 

The full panel transcript is at:

http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_08_11/Sessio
nTranscript

Jim Schoening