Re: Issue 2.2 - Adding properties to someone else's instances

>  Issue 2.2 - Adding properties to someone else's instances
>
>status - OPEN,
>
>  Proposal - CLOSE THIS ISSUE
>
>Our Working group has decided to use RDF/XML as our exchange 
>framework and that the semantics of our documents will be carried by 
>the triple store corresponding to this document.

That sentence is hard to interpret precisely. The triple store does 
not 'carry' a particular semantics. Which semantics are supposed to 
be used to interpret the triple store? (RDF/RDFS/RDFS with 
datatyping/OWL/....??)

>  The basic RDF model [1] allows documents to refer to and extend

How does it allow one to refer to another graph? (Do you mean reification?)

>the graphs represented by other documents, and thus properties can 
>be added to instances expressed in other documents.
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/ allo
>--
>Professor James Hendler				  hendler@cs.umd.edu
>Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies	  301-405-2696
>Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab.	  301-405-6707 (Fax)
>Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742	  240-731-3822 (Cell)
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Received on Thursday, 30 May 2002 15:13:01 UTC