- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 18:36:06 -0500
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>On 2002-04-19 1:54, "ext Jos De_Roo" <jos.deroo.jd@belgium.agfa.com> wrote: > >> >> [...] >> >>> PS How about rdfd:datatypeCheckOnPointyEnd.... Nah. >> >> rdfd:dcrange sounds neutral >> (at least when thinking about dc as datatype checked ;-) > >I would not like to see 'range' in the property name, since >it is not the assertion of the property that is constraining >the interpretation, it is the semantics of the datatype, >and the association of the datatype can be done in two >ways, either globally by association with a property or >locally by the explicit datatype property, but in either >case, it is the datatype that asserts the constraints. Oh, I see. Hmmm, I think that reasoning is slightly misleading, actually, since the *constraint* strictly speaking is applied - asserted, if you like - by our semantic conditions, not by the datatype. (The datatype is just a piece of mathematics as far as the semantics is concerned.) I actually do like having something that sounds slightly "range"-ish in order to convey that it is being applied at the sharp end of the property (the object not the subject of the triple), but maybe that is just a private obsession. >I think that rdfd:datatype and rdfd:RDFDatatype communicate >most accurately the semantics and are sufficiently different >to avoid upper/lower case typos or confusion. I guess I don't like using 'datatype' (the noun) for the property associating a datatype to the arguments of a property. One can read rdfs:range as "....has a range which is....", and similarly for rdfs:domain, rdf:type, etc. , so to me rdfd:datatype tends to read like "...has a datatype which is...." which is misleading, since this doesn't attach a datatype to the *property*, so much as kind of empower it to attach it to its objects. rdfd:objectDatatype ?? Nah..... I'll try again later, I seem to have lost my naming inspiration. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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