- From: Thomas Baker <thomas.baker@izb.fraunhofer.de>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 19:33:57 +0200
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Thomas Baker <thomas.baker@izb.fraunhofer.de>, SWBPD <public-swbp-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:38:20PM -0400, Jim Hendler wrote: > >> Rather than: "there are three or more languages and this is > >> how they differ." > > actually, I think this is the right track -- to present it as one > langauge overall - I'm not sure calling that langauge "OWL" is really > right -- seems to me RDF is the right name -- that is RDF used in the > "generic" sense the way "XML" is used to refer to XML, Xquery, XML > Schema, ... I agree. RDF has been around for longer and has better name recognition. Far better to say: "RDF is getting better, stretching its wings, etc" than to unintentionally imply that RDF is becoming obsolete (as in "Tired: RDF. Wired: OWL."). Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker Thomas.Baker@izb.fraunhofer.de Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-160-9664-2129 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-2352 Personal email: thbaker79@alumni.amherst.edu
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