- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 14:35:17 -0500
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>, www-rdf-comments@w3.org
>I believe there may be a problem with the word "core". It seems to >me we have an "rdf" vocabulary and an "rdfs" vocabulary, but not an >"rdf core" vocabulary (think "RDF core vocabulary" has now been >expunged from Concepts). Ah, this may be my fault. I needed a word to refer to the subvocabulary of the RDF namespace to which the rdf semantic conditions apply, and I invented the name 'core RDF vocabulary'. Maybe that was a bad choice of terminology. Would it be better is I used a different term, say "central RDF vocabulary" ? There is now a version of the document at http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDF_Semant_Edit_Central.html which has this name change made (2 places plus change log). In all other respects it is identical to http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/RDF_Semant_Edit_Weak.html Pat PS. the reason for 'central' is that it allows me to keep the abbreviation 'crdfV' >--Frank > >Dan Brickley wrote: > >>* Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> >>[2003-08-01 09:42-0400] >> >>>Looks good. >>> >>>I notice however, that the first sentence of Appendix A is incorrect. The >>>description is really an RDFS description. I do not believe that there is >>>an ``RDF Core vocabulary'' and if there were, this would not be it. >>> >> >>currently we have: >>"An RDF description of the RDF Core vocabulary is given here in RDF/XML >>serialization syntax." >> >>I'd accept that "An RDFS description of ..." would be more appropriate. >> >>Then the question of what we're describing. Currently we _do_ describe >>both the RDF namespaces owned/managed by RDF Core, ie. >>http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# but also the older >>http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# so our RDF/XML appendix >>includes claims such as: >> >>[[ >><rdfs:Class >>rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"> >> <rdfs:isDefinedBy >> rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"/> >><rdfs:label>Property</rdfs:label> >><rdfs:comment>The class of RDF properties.</rdfs:comment> >><rdfs:subClassOf >>rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource"/> >></rdfs:Class> >>]] >> >>I believe it is useful to present an integrated RDFS description of >>both sets of classes and properties, since people can never >>remember which lives where, and the rest of the RDFS spec also >>describes both. >> >>So question is how to describe this in Appendix A. How about this: >> >>"An RDF description of the RDF Core vocabulary is given here in RDF/XML >>serialization syntax." >>-> >>"An RDFS description of the http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# >>and http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# vocabularies is given >>here in RDF/XML syntax." >> >>Kinda ugly, but perhaps less contentious? >> >>Dan >> >> > > >-- >Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation >202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 >mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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