Note on OWL profiles

• OWL profiles are defined to reflect compromises:

• • expressibility vs. implementability

• Some application just need to express and interchange terms (with possible scruffiness): OWL Full is fine

• • they may build application-specific reasoning instead of using a general one

• Some applications need rigor, but only a simple set of statements: a rule engine based profile might be o.k.

• Some applications need rigor and complex term classification; then OWL DL/Lite might be the good choice