- From: Ivan Herman via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 09:27:54 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
> On 5 Nov 2015, at 22:46, Jacob <notifications@github.com> wrote: > Closing thought, we've already removed inferencing and reasoning from the playing board (which begs the question of why bother with rdf at all), > I have said that several times: as far as I am concerned, the value of RDF is not primarily its inference possibilities. The value is an easy integration of different data coming from different sources and origins, into one big happy graph. In practice, many of the RDF tools out there do not even do inference and reasoning, even the most basic RDFS reasoning (let alone OWL), by default, only via additional tools and libraries (if any)... > are we also to discount our expectations for what consuming applications are actually supposed to do with these documents? Or to put it another way, if the goal is to produce a general document standard for annotation-flavored documents then why not simply work directly in the json serialization format? (or xml or html or...). > > It's not actually the case that we have no commitments at all to inferencing and reasoning... > -- GitHub Notif of comment by iherman See https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/92#issuecomment-154356706
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