Re: review of LCC documents as of 26 December 2002

Promising direction, though I'm not sure what an "RDF resource" is. I usually 
read the "RDF" as redundant, and "resource" as synonym for "thing". Are there 
anythings (people, places, yadda) which aren't "RDF resources"?

Dan (in catchup mode)

* Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com> [2003-01-03 11:50+0000]
> 
> At 18:04 02/01/2003 -0500, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> >I gave this a try, and had to give up quite when I realized that the
> >Introduction directly contradicts itself:
> 
> I think I've fixed that.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >What I was working on was looking like:
> >
> >RDF's vocabulary description language, RDF Schema, is an extension of RDF.
> >RDF Schema provides mechanisms for describing groups of related resources
> >and the relationships between these resources.    ...
> >
> >...
> >
> >RDF Schema vocabulary descriptions are written in RDF.  The extra
> >descriptive power of RDF Schema over RDF is carried in a collection of RDF
> >resources.  These resources are used to describe characteristics of other
> >RDF resources, such as domains and ranges of properties.
> >
> >...
> 
> I really liked your text.  Clear thinking leads to clear writing.
> 
> I've incorporated something similar, replacing the original para with:
> 
> [[
> RDF's vocabulary description language, RDF Schema, is an extension of RDF. 
> It provides mechanisms for describing groups of related resources and the 
> relationships betwen these resources. RDF vocabulary descriptions are 
> written in RDF. The extra descriptive power of the RDF vocabulary 
> description language is carried in a collection of RDF resources defined in 
> this document.  These resources are used to describe characteristics of 
> other RDF resources, such as the domains and ranges of properties.
> 
> The RDF vocabulary description language allows for a finer grained mixing 
> of machine-processable vocabularies, and addresses the need [EXTWEB] to 
> create metadata in which statements can draw upon multiple vocabularies 
> that are managed in a decentralized fashion by independent communities.
> ]]
> 
> Are we nearly there yet?
> 
> Brian