Re: NIF conversion sections

Hi Jirka,

sorry for the late reply. If we drop NIF and have no other conversion to
RDF, we will need to change our charter again. See
http://www.w3.org/2012/09/mlw-lt-charter
"The MultilingualWeb-LT WG will assure that the metadata approach being
developed is allowing a conversion to RDF, to foster integration of
MultilingualWeb-LT metadata into the Semantic Web."
We had discussed RDFa as a helper for RDF conversion, but now know that i
doesn't work and already have done a re-chartering for that. So I have a
high motivation to keep NIF, since I don't see an alternative.

The algorithm (STEP1-STEP7 in
http://www.w3.org/International/multilingualweb/lt/drafts/its20/its20.html#conversion-to-nif
)
can be implemented actually as a very simple XSLT stylesheet
http://www.w3.org/People/fsasaki/its20-general-processor/tools/generate-nif.xsl
So I'm not sure what is so scary about that. Of course we can work on
making the algorihm easier to read.

Best,

Felix

2012/10/12 Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>

> On 12.10.2012 17:46, Felix Sasaki wrote:
>
> > apologies for not replying to various mails today, I'm on a train trip.
> > Durin the trip I created the NIF conversion sections.
>
> Hi Felix,
>
> thanks for this. Given the novelty of NIF and fact that it hasn't yet
> proved itself as a best practice for solving problems in many real-life
> projects I suggest moving all NIF related things into separate document.
> It can be put back into ITS 2.0 spec later when it proves that it has
> interoperable implementations and it's used in fact.
>
> Many people in past months pushed for more simpler and easy to digest
> specification, especially as we should cater for HTML community. Yes,
> I'm known for not being overoptimistic about RDF, but even if try to be
> RDFminded, I still see mapping section as quite scary for average reader.
>
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