- From: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:11:32 +0100
- To: Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Jirí Procházka wrote: >I would like RDF to be as lightweight (low level) as possible - if I >were to make mine RDF, there would be no containers, bnodes, literal >data types, language tags, maybe even no literals - using data URI >scheme. Anyway I value compatibility and adoption more than sticking to >my view of the world so I use RDF as it is. > >Other alternative would be to have the low level core, build modules on >top of it, for example like some programming languages do (Python, >Java...) and call the whole thing RDF - I guess that is what would make >most people happy. Good point! I tend to regard the containers, collections, reification, rdf:value and rdf:XMLLiteral related sub-vocabularies of RDF to build sort of a "standard utility library" for RDF, although, of course, this is not really the case. But for the future of RDF, instead of deprecating or even removing them completely from the spec, one could also simply "externalize" them into their own specs as /optional/ features of RDF. This reminds me to OWL 2, where the concept of an n-ary datarange is now also an optional feature, and there is a first type of n-ary dataranges, namely linear equations, available in its own document [1], maybe others will follow over time. This strategy settled some longish and heated discussion within the OWL Working Group about whether n-ary dataranges should go into the core language or not, and if yes, which and to what degree, etc. [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-owl2-dr-linear-20091027/> Michael -- Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider Research Scientist, Information Process Engineering (IPE) Tel : +49-721-9654-726 Fax : +49-721-9654-727 Email: michael.schneider@fzi.de WWW : http://www.fzi.de/michael.schneider ======================================================================= FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Az 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus =======================================================================
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