Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...]

* [2011-06-14 08:55:09 -0700] Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us> écrit:

] Well, you have got me confused. Are you saying here that it does
] in fact make sense to say that a description of the eiffel tower
] is 356M tall? 

I'm just saying that things like this will be published because the
publisher is confused, or mistaken or doesn't think that making the
distinction is important or convenient and consumers of the data have
to deal with it.

We should encourage the publishers to do a better job but some of them
will balk and sometimes, like with the schema.org that started this
thread, big, important publishers with a lot of influence will balk.
If we're lucky we can convince them to fix it, otherwise writers of
software that consumes the data and tries to reason with it have to
work out a way to be robust in the face of this kind of ambiguity.

That's all.

-w
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