- From: Agis Papantoniou <apapant@medialab.ntua.gr>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:49:15 +0300
- To: Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com>, public-gld-wg@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:49:42 UTC
On 25 October 2012 10:52, Dave Reynolds <dave.e.reynolds@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24/10/12 01:16, Richard Cyganiak wrote: > > 13. What's an “abstract data type” anyway? Can we have a reference? >>>> >>> >>> I offer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Abstract_data_type<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_data_type> >>> >> >> Hm... The various definitions all talk either about behaviour or about >> programming languages, neither of which seems appropriate here. >> > > Agreed, these are not abstract data types in the computer science sense. I > seem to recall mentioning this before. Thought a bit upon that, would a rephrasing like the following, along with the reference, be better? "The Registered Organization Vocabulary makes use of the following data types, all of which are modeled and defined in the ADMS specification [ADMS], on a higher abstraction level [1], for domain independent re-usability" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)#Levels_of_abstraction Best, Agis
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