To make it clear (because I saw the other votes): I will _not_ have sleepless nights if the attribute is 'instanceof':-) Ivan Ivan Herman wrote: > isa > > Ivan > > Ben Adida wrote: >> Everyone else on the list: time to express an opinion on which attribute >> name you'd like, ASAP :) >> >> -Ben >> >> Ivan Herman wrote: >>> 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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