- From: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:20:09 +0100
- To: "Jeremy Carroll" <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Jeremy Carroll wrote: >Michael Schneider wrote: >> Jeremy Carroll wrote: >> >> >>> I think the attractiveness of RDF is minimalism and quietly >deprecating >>> containers without any explicit replacement is quite doable. >>> >> >> What would "quietly deprecating" mean? >> > >The bits of RDF I don't like :) could be marked as deprecated. >The documentation of RDF would discourage their use in new ontologies >and schemas, but existing systems would continue to use them. >i.e. we would have explicit agreement in the community that there are >better ways to achieve the same effects, but pragmatically a realization >that would is done, is done. Ok, so this sounds to me just like vanilla deprecation, I don't see anything going on "quietly" here. I just asked, because I remembered having seen this term "quiet deprecation" more than once being used in this thread, and I wondered whether there is something important that I have missed. Best, 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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