On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:24 -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > On 24 Jul 2007, at 13:14 , Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > > > ... > > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:12 -0600, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> It seems to me to be a surprising and unfortunate lurch toward a > >> closed-world assumption, to require that the RDF representation of a > >> document originate with, or be authorized by, the creator of the > >> document. I think that's a pretty severe design error, and one that > >> surprises me, coming from the Semantic Web activity. > > > > We should be careful not to conflate closed-world assumption (which is > > specifically a feature of inference - GRDDL has nothing to do with > > inference) with functional data transformations. > > Except, of course, that the logic of the design, as I have > understood it so far, relies on an inference something like: > > The author did not point to this transformation from > the document, nor did the namespace owner point to this > transformation from the namespace name. > > Therefore, the transformation is not a faithful rendition > of the author's intentions. No; only that if the author didn't point directly nor indirectly to the transformation, we don't know whether it's a faithful rendition or not. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Friday, 27 July 2007 14:51:38 GMT
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