- From: Thomas Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 09:13:34 -0500
- To: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Cc: "Diane I. Hillmann" <dih1@cornell.edu>, "public-lld@w3.org" <public-lld@w3.org>
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 09:35:22AM -0800, Karen Coyle wrote: > I actually think that we should emphasize the "has a" rather than "is > a" aspects of the resources we describe, and let the "has a" allow us > to infer any number of "is a" qualities. This is the message that Jon > Phipps gave at the tutorial day at DC in Pittsburgh -- that we > describe things by their characteristics, and those characteristics > tell us what the thing *is*. Yes, that sounds right to me. Emphasize Properties (relationships) over Classes. Verbs over nouns. Describe things less through giving them a name -- i.e., writing a definition for a class of things to which they belong -- and more through enumerating their characteristics. -- Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
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