Re: schema

Yes, but I thought we were talking about the name of a language, not an
instance of its use.  The original document talked about "RDF Schema". 
That wasn't referring to a set of declarations, it was referring to a
language;  more completely, something like "The RDF Schema Definition
Language".  You yourself just used the term "RDF schema vocab[ulary]". 
Is there something wrong with that?  

--Frank

Dan Brickley wrote:
> 
> the problem with 'schema' used as a noun is that there are lots of
> rdf docs that use RDF schema vocab in various ways, and only some of them
> (intuitively) feel like things we might label 'schema'. Pinning down
> criteeria for which docs 'are schemas' and which 'merely use RDFS vocab'
> is pretty slippery. Not that we couldn't do it, just that we haven't yet,
> and it's non-trivial.  We might try defining 'namespace' while we're at
> it. The XML folk didn't have much luck with that, though...
> 
> dan

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