Re: Jan Wielemaker is o.k. I think

I had another round of private mail with Jan yesterday and I think we
are fine as far as the LC is concerned.

Ivan

Rinke Hoekstra wrote:
> I just walked over to Jan's office to confirm the ACK-OK status of his
> answer, but he wasn't in. In fact, he won't be reachable for the coming
> two months: he will be cycling in Namibia (and South Africa, and perhaps
> Botswana as well).
> 
> ... but I interpret his response as an ACK-OK as well.
> 
> -Rinke
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> 
> On 19 mrt 2009, at 22:35, Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
>> On 19 Mar 2009, at 20:55, Michael Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> Me too.
>>
>> I agree as well. I think it's good to try to make people happy, but
>> that's not the groups job at this point.
>>
>>> And I think that neither of the two proposed approaches could be seen
>>> as a
>>> serious replacement for OWL/XML.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> [snip]
>>> This doesn't mean that I disregard Jan's basic idea of having one basic
>>> serialization syntax for RDF, and then extend it for the different
>>> SemWeb
>>> languages. I only believe that it won't help us (or POWDER, or ...) too
>>> much, in particular not with RDF/XML(-ABBREV) as the base language.
>>
>> Sandro suggested this as well, and seems to have some ideas in this
>> area. I'm pretty skeptical, but I'll be happy to see proposals. But I
>> think they'd need a lot of vetting and experience before we could rely
>> on them.
>>
>> It's also contra the current trend. GRDDL, for all its horrific,
>> disfiguring, oozy warts, starts from the point of view that XML has
>> it's advantages and that it's better *not* to try to displace it, but
>> to work with it. That's what I like about it. The warts...not so much :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bijan.
> 
> 

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