- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:23:42 -0500
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- CC: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
pat hayes wrote: > snip > > 3a. The minimal kind of information is a specification of which > literals are syntactically correct, ie in the lexical space of the > datatype, and which are not. > This information being unobtainable for a resource which is asserted > to be in the class rdfs:Datatype may be considered an error condition. > 3b. The second kind of information is a specification of which > literals map to the same value in the datatype. This information can > be conceptualized as a set of equations between typed literals with > the same type: > "aaa"^^ddd = "bbb"^^ddd . > but it may also be provided, for example, by giving a mapping from > lexical forms to canonical lexical forms. Pat-- In 3a you related the kind of information to the specification of the lexical space. Can you relate the kind of information in 3b to the datatype mapping? (Trying to cast this in terms of the framework described in the Concepts WD). --Frank -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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