Re: new version of rdf:O)-> document

From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: new version of rdf:O)-> document
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:02:11 -0500

> Sandro Hawke wrote:
> 
>> As I'm imagining it, any time anyone defines a new datatype, they are
>> adding an element to the conceptual model of RDF.  
> 
> Adding a datatype does not change the conceptual model of RDF.
> 
> Making things that were not datatyped now be datatyped, even though 
> their spelling in the syntax hasn't shifted, is a change. It's a 
> plausible change, one which I'm sure can be lived with, but the "this is 
> just another datatype" argument doesn't fly.

But Option 5 does *not* do this! 

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> Dave

peter

Received on Friday, 29 May 2009 14:14:21 UTC