Back in January an interesting discussion started on the semantic web interest group regarding a possible schism between OWL focused tools and RDF focused tools. What isn’t mentioned, but is obvious in reading the new OWL2 specs is that RDF isn’t nearly as prominant as it was in OWL1. Specifically, the first OWL specification was written with all it’s examples in RDF/XML. OWL2 introduces 3 new representation formats, machester, owl2xml, and owl functional. That’s in addition to the existing represenation formats (n3, turtle, RDF/XML), and there is a tremendous amount of complexity and details in just understanding the set pre- owl2. (if you don’t believe me see this blog post on the details)
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