Re: status RDF Primer

On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 21:36 +0100, Guus Schreiber wrote:
>
> On 13-11-13 20:09, Dan Brickley wrote:
> > On 13 November 2013 19:00, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote:
> >> On 13-11-13 19:51, Dan Brickley wrote:
> >>> On 13 November 2013 14:10, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>> Can you say a few words about where the Primer stops, and where
> >>> Concepts starts? What's the scope for primer...?
> >>
> >>
> >> The Primer is informative. The purpose is to give a light-weight
> >> introduction into the RDF 1.1 world. It doesn't have the pretense of being
> >> complete. For example, the document doesn't mention that graph names can be
> >> blank nodes, the table with RDF Schema constructs lists a small subset, etc.
> >> Also, it should contain easy-to-understand but realistic examples.
> >>
> >> OK?
> >>
> >> We should probably make this purpose clear in the document.
> >
> > Thanks. The reason I ask is that a commentator who shall remain
> > nameless said something (about RDF Core) along lines of "W3C ... they
> > managed to turn the RDF Primer into a 100 page document...". It would
> > be great to have a primer that fits on 2 sides of A4... is that over
> > idealistic?
>
> Good point. Maybe the adagium "if I had had more time I would have been
> shorter" holds here.  For the moment we could tell readers that Secs.
> 3-5 act as a bluffers guide to RDF 1.1. Those sections span in total (in
> my print) about 6 pages.

... and 5 on mine - I hope that's reasonable length-wise? (There's
certainly a lot less text than in the 2004 primer)

Best,
Yves

>
> Guus
>
>
> >
> > Dan
> >
>



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