Re: Hammer vs. tweezers

Thats a function of the machinery used for the definition.

If you want to use standard model theory, I don't see why
you could use all the rdf on all the servers in the world.

guha

Sergey Melnik wrote:

>
>
> Let me give an example. We expect to find RDF statements on many
> webpages and in many online data sources. Specific applications
> typically consider only a subset of all available data (e.g. certain
> domain, certain set of trusted servers, certain vocabularies, etc.) I
> was trying to convey the idea that meaningful semantics exists only for
> such limited datasets, whose boundaries are determined in a particular
> application context. It probably would be inappropriate to refer to the
> set of all webpages on public servers when say defining the semantics of
> rdf:type.
>
> Sergey

Received on Wednesday, 13 June 2001 21:30:33 UTC