resources (RDF, that is)

In RDF, a resource is an entity in the world (or maybe not in the world).  RDF 
resources can be much more than nodes in an RDF graph. Saying that an RDF 
resource satisfies a shape/constraint/description is very different from 
saying that a node in an RDF graph satisfies a shape/constraint/description. 
If we are talking about resources, we might say that Dick Cheney matches the 
shape/constraint/description unrepentant.  If we are talking  about nodes, we 
might say that the node ex:dc in

   ex:dc ex:bar 1 .

matches the shape/constraint/description exactly one ex:bar and all ex:bar 
integer.


As this is the *RDF* data shapes working group, I would object if we did not 
use RDF terminology in the correct way.  This means that I would object if any 
document from the working group used resource in other than its RDF meaning.


Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Nuance Communications

Received on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 16:40:39 UTC