Issue 10875: Individuals (odm-ftf) Source: NIST (Mr. Conrad Bock, conrad.bock(at)nist.gov) Nature: Revision Severity: Critical Summary: Individuals. In 16.2.3 (More Advanced Concepts), fifth paragraph, the first sentence draws a conclucions ("therefore") without any justification. Individuals in OWL are all classified by Thing, whether or not this is explicityly recorded. It's just syntactic sugar to omit it. In UML, instance specifications can be classified by Thing in the model library and have the same semantics as OWL individual. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: March 30, 2007: received issue Discussion: FTF resources were scarce and priority was given to issues against normative sections, hence many issues such as this were left unresolved. Disposition: Deferred to RTF End of Annotations:===== m: webmaster@omg.org Date: 30 Mar 2007 00:59:44 -0500 To: Subject: Issue/Bug Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Conrad Bock Company: NIST mailFrom: conrad.bock@nist.giv Notification: No Specification: Ontology Definition Metamodel Section: Chapter 16 FormalNumber: ptc/06-10-11 Version: RevisionDate: Page: Nature: Revision Severity: Critical HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) Description Individuals. In 16.2.3 (More Advanced Concepts), fifth paragraph, the first sentence draws a conclucions ("therefore") without any justification. Individuals in OWL are all classified by Thing, whether or not this is explicityly recorded. It's just syntactic sugar to omit it. In UML, instance specifications can be classified by Thing in the model library and have the same semantics as OWL individual.