RE: Enumeration in RDF?

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> From: ext LYNN,JAMES (HP-USA,ex1) [mailto:james.lynn@hp.com]
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> To: Stickler Patrick (NMP-MSW/Tampere); garret@globalmentor.com;
> danbri@w3.org
> Cc: Barstow Art (NMP-MSW/Boston); www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Enumeration in RDF?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com [mailto:Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:30 AM
> To: garret@globalmentor.com; danbri@w3.org
> Cc: Art.Barstow@nokia.com; www-rdf-interest@w3.org;
> Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
> Subject: RE: Enumeration in RDF?
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> >Collections, being structures, go contrary to that, as there
> >is no formally defined way to merge collections.
> 
> Thinking out loud here (not formally defined)- suppose we 
> view a collection
> as "known members of a collection" rather than...
> 
> >... to somehow have control over the
> >defined members of a collection. 
> 
> This doesn't, of course, resolve this issue...

Sorry, but I'm not quite following what your trying to say here.

> >  RDF has no official means of keeping track
> of source and/or authority 
> 
> Comments?

Meaning, even though RDF provides a vocabulary for reification,
and some guidelines thereof, there are no explicit properties
for specifying *specifically* the source or authority of an
assertion, nor any treatment of such in the MT.

Any solution for tracking source/authority of assertions will
be proprietary -- even if it constitutes a widely supported
idiom.

Patrick

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Patrick Stickler
Nokia, Finland
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