Issue pfps-24 What is RDF Schema?

Recorded as

   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-24

Brian


At 08:26 21/03/2003 -0500, Dan Brickley wrote:
>Peter,
>
>Thanks for your Last Call review comment on RDF Schema in
>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0149.html
>
>Sorry I'm late with these responses. You ask 'what is RDF schema?' and
>note that the specification appears unclear on this. Rather than treat this
>as an editorial fixup, I think it best that the RDFCore WG treat this
>as formal issue.
>Brian, could you create a LC open issue entry for this?
>
>Aside:
>I think this is related to the 'rename RDF Schema?' issue,
>ie. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#webont-01
>in that as we've moved towards calling this a 'vocabulary description
>language', rather than 'RDF Schema', there is less tendency towards
>using the noun form, ie. we find ourselves asking what the RDFS/RDFVDL
>language is (answer: a semantic extension of RDF), rather
>than what _an_ RDF Schema is.
>
>Anyway, I agree that we could be clearer on this in the spec.
>
>Thanks for your careful attention,
>
>cheers,
>
>Dan