- Q: with huge ontologies on the Web, does this scale?
- A: yes and no…
					- obviously, reasoning over huge ontologies may be a problem
							- and combination of ontologies may lead to this
 
- but “a little semantics can take you far” (Jim Hendler)
- i.e., small OWL ontologies may be very powerful by themselves!
- also: applications may use “islands” of ontologies, and loosely bind them 
							- remember owl:equivalentClass?
 
- remember 
- also: applications may use “islands” of ontologies, and loosely bind them - remember owl:sameAs?
 
- remember 
- however, further work is still needed here
- note: there are already applications with large ontologies!
 
- obviously, reasoning over huge ontologies may be a problem