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Re: same-syntax extensions to RDF

From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:48:01 -0500
To: "R.V.Guha" <guha@guha.com>
Cc: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Message-ID: <20041230174801.GB12801@homer.w3.org>

* R.V.Guha <guha@guha.com> [2004-12-30 08:46-0800]
> 
> Sandro,
> 
>    Just to set the record straight. No, RDF was not hatched 
> as just a metadata format. It was a simple data model which 
> could be used for a wide range of *instance* data. See [1]. 

Yeah, I think that's the healthiest distinction. Even fancy 
rule languages can target RDF as instance format... (though they 
might allow n-ary internally, and hence help a push for dropping of the 
binary relation constraint in any hypothetical new version of 
RDF-the-instance-format).

Dan
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