Hi John,
I just wanted to respond to one part:
> Surely you're aware the community so highly esteems your
> contributions to OWL specifications, that it has a directly consequent,
> unflinching & justifiable belief that SMW is a /faithful RDF
> implementation/.
I don't believe this is true. To recap, what you're saying is: (a) most
users of SMW care about RDF and the like, (b) developers of SMW are guided
by SMW standards, (c) Markus's involvement in OWL makes people think that
SMW similarly is a Semantic Web-based project, (d) as a result, SMW
users/developers are going to be disappointed that it doesn't adhere to all
the RDF conventions.
I'm pretty sure none of the above are true. This is not to denigrate any
part of the Semantic Web, but I think it's safe to say that the average SMW
user is unconcerned about RDF and the like, and that the average SMW
developer views RDF as a storage/output format, not something that guides
how SMW should operate. So I'd say that you're in the minority on this one.
Not that there's anything wrong with holding minority opinions (I've
certainly been in that situation), but I think you'd be better off arguing
your case on the technical merits, rather than on an appeal to people's
expectations.
-Yaron
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