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Re: rdf crystalization

From: Jan Algermissen <algermissen1971@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:05:16 +0200
Message-ID: <419309.1156777516882.JavaMail.algermissen1971@mac.com>
To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>

 
On Monday, August 28, 2006, at 04:59PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote:

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>> Hmm.. I guess that is 'serialization', eh?
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>No no. You can serialize an rdf graph into any number of different  
>xml/rdf documents. When you crystalize it, you force a particular  
>structure on the rdf serialization. 

Since this is a somewhat common task, it would be really useful to have a declarative means for specifying the mapping. IIRC, [1] is a nice approach.

Jan

[1] http://www.semanticplanet.com/2003/08/rdft/





o for example in the RSS 1.1  
>case you force the document to start with the <Channel> element,  
>specify that it can contain <title>, <lint>, <items>..., and specify  
>that <items> contain <item>s which contains <title>,<link>, ...  
>elements. You do this using a Relax-NG schema.
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>see the RSS1.1 spec for a good example of this:
>http://inamidst.com/rss1.1/
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>Henry
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Jan Algermissen                                               http://jalgermissen.com
Software Architect                                            http://www.tugboat.de
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