Re: RDF Investigations

On 6/24/13 3:52 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Kingsley Idehen
> <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
>> On 6/24/13 10:32 AM, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>> If you can give up on all this, what do you take yourself to be referring
>>> to when you say "RDF" ? You have just dismissed virtually every defining
>>> characteristic of RDF as either wrong or inessential. So what is left?
>>>
>>> Pat
>> I am going to create a poll aimed as getting a feel for what folks perceive
>> as the defining characteristics of RDF. In recent times, I've come to
>> believe those characteristics aren't so clear anymore.
> Kingsley, Kingsley, Kingsley, you old thread hijacker you. ;)  Best of
> luck, but for the record, I don't have a dog in that fight.  As far as
> I'm concerned people can use RDF to mean whatever they want it to
> mean, as long as the software works.
>
> -Gregg
>
>
>
Gregg,

There is an issue here that for whatever reasons simply keeps on getting 
lost. The question is simple: what are the unique characteristics of 
RDF? What does RDF do uniquely?

I actually believe RDF does have unique characteristics, but I am 
curious to see if mine are in alignment with views of others.

I really don't want RDF to become something that's based on a leap of 
faith, we can do much better than that :-)

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