>* Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> [2004-06-11 08:29-0400] >> >> >> >From Peter F. Patel-Schneider: >> > In any case, there are indeed already more-or-less standard ways of doing >> > much of what you appear to want. >> >> I'm inclined to agree. > >Likewise. +1. And I would further add, that if you want to do this stuff in a SWeb-explicit way, all the tools are available for doing this. By all means come up with a suggestion: there are several already, eg see http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/SWTSGuide/carroll-iswc2004.pdf for one. > >In practice, the way I have been doing this is just to treat >RDF/XML documents much the way I treat XHTML XML documents, or other >text files. They are things with properties such as creator, creation >date, checksum etc. And as textual documents, they can be digitally >signed, encrypted etc. with widely available tools such as PGP. > >When I write an RDF file that is important enough that I want others to >know that (a) I wrote it, (b) it hasn't been subsequently changed, I >just include markup in the document that mentions me as the author, and >points to the results of PGP signing it. > >Coming up with a formal account of all this would be hard work, Well, except that the work has already been done :-) See above. >but the >basic approach of treating RDF documents as having common >characteristics with other document formats seems a plausible and >pragmatic way of making progress. Indeed. In fact it seems hard to see how to stop people doing this, even if one were inclined to want to stop them. Pat >cheers, > >Dan -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayesReceived on Friday, 11 June 2004 19:21:04 GMT
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