instanceof is still the closest to the RDF meaning, isa refers back to the usage in turtle. Although I share Steven's uneasiness about the two-word thing, they still seem to be the best... Among the others listed only 'kind' seems to be appropriate. The others convey some sort of a meaning that rdf:type does not have... Ivan Ben Adida wrote: > > Hi all, > > In today's telecon, we proposed and resolved to use a *new* attribute, > rather than @class or @role, for the rdf:type syntactic sugar. Thus, > @class and @role do not currently result in any triples being generated, > although one may consider that they will in a future version. > > The question, then, is which attribute to use. Steven expressed > reservations about two-word attributes like "isa" or "instanceof", and > instead proposed: denotes, depicts, represents, category, ilk, kind. > > Other thoughts? > > I'm partial to "instanceof" and "kind", and I have no additional > suggestions. > > -Ben > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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