- From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
- Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 18:09:30 +0000
- To: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 05/12/13 11:47, RDF Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > RDF-ISSUE-176: CR comment: BNF expression of RDF Concepts [RDF Concepts] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/176 > > Raised by: Markus Lanthaler > On product: RDF Concepts > > *** This was raised by Richard Light on the mailing list *** > > I notice that the 1.1 CR [1] lacks a BNF representation of the concepts which characterize an RDF graph. I suggest that providing such a formal representation would be helpful to systems developers, since it would introduce standard naming conventions, and structures, which could be followed in whichever programming language was being used for development. This inter-system consistency would, in turn, help application software engineers using the systems they create. > > Richard > > [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/ > > ------------------------------------------- > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Dec/0010.html This is a very reasonable idea but it's too late. Agreeing additional naming is potentially time consuming and ideally needs review in the community beyond the working group. it also need liniking to the terminology already used (e.g. RDF Term). Example, from Eric quick sketch """ Graph: Triple* """ It's a detail but a graph is a set of triples, not a list, which that suggests it is. Andy
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