RIF scope - exchange of RDFS/OWL fact models

To what extent will RIF address exchange of fact models in RDFS and OWL

Full Statement

www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub describes best practices for publishing an RDFS or OWL vocabulary or ontology on the Web.

Does this address all that the RIF needs for exchanging fact models (fact types and instances)?

If not, what else is needed, and:

• How much of it is within the scope of RIF • How much of it should be somewhere else because it addresses wider requirements than this of the RIF? • Will the RIF be exchanged by a similar publishing mechanism (www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub)?

1.3. Consistency with W3C specifications

Alignment with Semantic Web
1. Support RDF
  1. RIF should accept RDF triples as data. See The RIF Core must be able to accept RDF triples as data
  b. Support OWL
  1. RIF should accept OWL knowledgebases as data. The RIF Core must be able to accept OWL KBs as data

Critical success factor supporting Consistency with W3C specifications

We don’t want to include within RIF something that is well-addressed elsewhere

We don’t want to create dependencies on RIF of things that require only a standard for interchange of fact or knowledge bases

This has to be scoped correctly before we start detailed work.

OMG (Donald Chapin, John Hall); NIST (Ed Barkmeyer)