Re: ACTION: elaborate on 4.4

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:55:25AM +0100, Seaborne, Andy wrote:

> There is one, defined recommendation for serializing RDF graphs - its
> RDF/XML [1].  The one point of having a recommendation is so everyone can
> implement one thing, and not many.

And yet people keep making new ways to serialize RDF graphs. This
suggests to me what people have been saying about RDF-XML forever: it
has some warts and doesn't fit some (many?) situations. I happen to
think -- the layer cake be damned (eaten?) -- that non-XML
serializations of RDF are (or can be) a very good thing. I don't want
to give those communities *no way* to use DAWG compliantly.

Sorry, but "one ring to bind them"-style arguments fall super flat
with me. Standardization != restriction of choices to 1 only.

> Alternative serialization that encode more information (TriX for the named
> graphs, some way of using N3 with formulae) is one thing: promoting
> alternative serialises of RDF just negates the value to clients (samll and
> large) of having one serialization to deal with.

Tell that to Sir TBL! :>

Best,
Kendall