Issue 10875: Individuals (odm-rtf)
Source: NIST (Dr. 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: Replace text as described below. (Note: this issue actually refers to the sixth paragraph)
Revised Text: Replace first sentence in sixth paragraph in section 16.2.3 which currently reads:
An OWL individual can therefore be difficult to represent in a UML model.
with
An OWL individual can be difficult to represent in a UML model.

Actions taken:
March 30, 2007: received issue
April 25, 2014: closed 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

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Date: 30 Mar 2007 00:59:44 -0500
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Name: Conrad Bock
Company: NIST
mailFrom: conrad.bock@nist.giv
Notification: No
Specification: Ontology Definition Metamodel
Section: Chapter 16
FormalNumber: ptc/06-10-11
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Nature: Revision
Severity: Critical
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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.