- From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:50:39 -0700
- To: public-hydra@w3.org
- CC: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
hello kingsley. On 2015-04-27 17:18 , Kingsley Idehen wrote: > A Language is a Framework for systematic use of signs, syntax, and > semantics for encoding and decoding information [data in some context]. sure. no disagreement here. but that's very unspecific, and according to this, anything in computer communications is a language (which is true, but not very useful to differentiate a little). while RDF is a language, it more importantly is a language for building languages, which to me is an (or even the most) important aspect of it. so while i agree that "format" is not a good word to talk about RDF, in the end a model without a format makes no sense in any scenario that requires information exchange. we need formats to communicate. but, in order to make you a little less unhappy, i have tweaked the text a little bit and maybe that works better for you. https://github.com/dret/I-D/commit/f46e249da59ccc4cc1277f2968b0576552623752 thanks and cheers, dret. -- erik wilde | mailto:dret@berkeley.edu - tel:+1-510-2061079 | | UC Berkeley - School of Information (ISchool) | | http://dret.net/netdret http://twitter.com/dret |
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