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RE: Objective 4.6 -- additional semantic information

From: Rob Shearer <Rob.Shearer@networkinference.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:51:30 -0700
Message-ID: <CFE388CECDDB1E43AB1F60136BEB497303FE5C@rome.ad.networkinference.com>
To: "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>, "Kendall Clark" <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
Cc: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, "RDF Data Access Working Group" <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org> 

> Assuming by "about" you mean "contained" ("about" suggest 
> stuff like who
> authored it, when it was last changed etc - external 
> assertions aboiut the
> graph as well), then I don't see why the wording implies "all 
> knowledge",
> rather then some additional knowledge.

I very explicitly do *not* mean "contained" when I use "about".

"This graph contains one of the two triples a R b, c R d." is knowledge
*about* an RDF graph.

It cannot necessarily be encoded *within* an RDF graph.
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