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Re: rdf crystalization

From: Frank Manola <fmanola@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:47 -0400
Message-ID: <44F3505B.1030009@acm.org>
To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
CC: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>



Henry Story wrote:
> 
> As it is often useful to have terms to speak about things, I invented 
> "rdf crystalization" to describe what RSS1.1 does
> when it combines a relax-ng with an ontology to create structured rdf/xml .
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/date/20060828
> 
> RDF is fluid data, but it helps to crystalize it for angle bracket lovers.
> 
> After writing this I thought perhaps I should check if there is already 
> a term for that :-)
> 

This isn't exactly an answer to the question you asked, but apparently 
people do calculate an rdf (radial distribution function) in studying 
crystallization!

--Frank
Received on Monday, 28 August 2006 20:19:05 GMT

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