Comments on Use Cases draft (1-5)

I think this doc is ok to go forward, overall it works nicely.

I'm in two minds about the Introduction, it does cross over into
Primer territory, redundant when we have a Primer, but then again I
guess it does no harm.

Some editorial tweak suggestions below, the rest to follow soon.

btw, I think the differences in style & wordcount between the
different cases works rather well in offering different angles.

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*** Abstract
See recent modifications of spec & primer abstracts.

*** Table of Contents
The style of the titles isn't very consistent, described in separate mail.

*** 1. Introduction: Data and Documents

This doc is associated with the primer, so it'd be good to link to the
RDF Primer, maybe at the end of the para beginning "The Resource
Description Framework[RDFC04] provides..."
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/

[[
RDF includes an XML concrete syntax and an abstract model. Software
tools that use the Resource Description Framework naturally work with
documents whose data is encoded using RDF/XML.
]]
=>
[[
RDF is based on an abstract model but includes an XML concrete syntax
(RDF/XML). Software tools that use the Resource Description Framework
can generally read data encoded as RDF/XML.
]]

[[
GRDDL is a mechanism for Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects
of Languages; that is, for extracting RDF data from XML documents by
way of transformation algorithms, typically represented in XSLT.
]]
add
[[
The results of the transformations will usually be RDF/XML documents,
although other RDF syntaxes may be used.
]]

[[
The following HTML and RDF excerpts illustrate the correspondence
]]
maybe add little subtitles to separate the listings,
HTML :
<html...

RDF/XML:
<rdf:RDF...

[[
The transformation algorithm used is expressed in an XSLT
transformation, dc-extract.xsl.
]]
=>
[[
The transformation algorithm to convert between the different formats
can be specified using XSLT, in this case dc-extract.xsl.
]]

*** Use case #1 - Scheduling : Jane is trying to coordinate a meeting.
[[
Despite their different formats, the calendars of all four friends can
be used as source documents
]]
=>
[[
Despite their different formats, the calendars of all four friends can
be used as GRDDL source documents
]]

[[
These groups publish their calendars in various HTML-based formats:
microformats, eRDF, RDFa, or some home-grown way to express calendar
information.
]]
=>
[[
These groups publish their calendars in various HTML-based formats:
microformats, eRDF, RDFa, and other home-grown ways of expressing
calendar information.
]]

[[
The rendered XHTML+RDFa provides a copy- paste functionality via,
right-clicking on an event right in the rendered XHTML+RDFa.
]]
Not sure what the intent here is - can Jane's Personal Calendar read
RDFa? Or maybe her GRDDL-enabled browser will give it her as iCalendar
format?

*** Use case #2: Health Care: Querying XML-based clinical data using a
standard ontology

First 3 paragraphs, minor tweaking could bring the motivation further
up, maybe to:
[[
Kayode, a developer for a clinical research data management system,
uses XML as the main representation format for their computer-based
patient record. He currently edits the XML remotely via forms, submits
the XML document to a unique URI for each such record over HTTP. But
elsewhere Kayode has found RDF queries useful for investigative
querying.

He wants to use a content management system which includes a mechanism
to automatically replicate an XML document into equivalent, named RDF
graphs for persistence in synchrony with any changes to the document.

The expense of dual representation as single-purpose XML vocabulary
and RDF includes space and synchrony problems, but the primary value
is being able to query both as XML and as RDF. The corresponding XML
documents can be transformed into other non-RDF formats, evaluated by
XPath and XPointer expressions, cross-linked by XLink or XInclude, and
structurally validated by RELAX NG (or XML Schema). With the RDF query
facility he can ask speculative questions using standard healthcare
ontologies for patient records, such as the HL7 OWL ontology.
]]

[[
Kayode realizes a GRDDL approach alleviates this expense
]]
=>
[[
Kayode realizes a GRDDL approach can alleviate the expense of
maintaining a dual representation
]]

*** Use case #3 - Aggregating data: Stephan wants a synthetic review
before buying a guitar.

(bit short, but I think ok)

*** Use case #4 - Querying sites and digital libraries: DC4Plus Corp.
wants to automate the publication of its electronic documents.

(ok)

*** Use case #5 - Wikis and e-learning: The Technical University of
Marcilly decided to use wikis to foster knowledge exchanges between
lecturers and students.

The ref. link for "wikis" goes to the French Wikipedia - swap for English?

I believe "learning objects" is well-known in the domain, but it would
be good to have a reference link -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_Object



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Received on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:06:57 UTC