- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:13:34 -0800
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: "www-rdf-comments@w3.org" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 08:29 AM, Seth Russell wrote: > >> The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for >> representing information on the Internet. > > > What is "the Internet"? If I use RDF to transfer information over a > crossover Ethernet cable on Mars, is that information "on the > Internet"? How about: > The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for > representing information. +1 > That's not really true, though. It's not a language, it's a format, > but really a framework. And it doesn't really represent information, > it encodes it. > > The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is framework for describing > resources. Shades of Gertrude Stein ... "A rose is a rose is a rose ..." Seth Russell http://radio.weblogs.com/0113759/
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