Re: Jan Wielemaker is o.k. I think

I just walked over to Jan's office to confirm the ACK-OK status of his  
answer, but he wasn't in. In fact, he won't be reachable for the  
coming two months: he will be cycling in Namibia (and South Africa,  
and perhaps Botswana as well).

... but I interpret his response as an ACK-OK as well.

-Rinke

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On 19 mrt 2009, at 22:35, Bijan Parsia wrote:

> On 19 Mar 2009, at 20:55, Michael Schneider wrote:
>
>> Me too.
>
> I agree as well. I think it's good to try to make people happy, but  
> that's not the groups job at this point.
>
>> And I think that neither of the two proposed approaches could be  
>> seen as a
>> serious replacement for OWL/XML.
>
> +1
>
> [snip]
>> This doesn't mean that I disregard Jan's basic idea of having one  
>> basic
>> serialization syntax for RDF, and then extend it for the different  
>> SemWeb
>> languages. I only believe that it won't help us (or POWDER, or ...)  
>> too
>> much, in particular not with RDF/XML(-ABBREV) as the base language.
>
> Sandro suggested this as well, and seems to have some ideas in this  
> area. I'm pretty skeptical, but I'll be happy to see proposals. But  
> I think they'd need a lot of vetting and experience before we could  
> rely on them.
>
> It's also contra the current trend. GRDDL, for all its horrific,  
> disfiguring, oozy warts, starts from the point of view that XML has  
> it's advantages and that it's better *not* to try to displace it,  
> but to work with it. That's what I like about it. The warts...not so  
> much :)
>
> Cheers,
> Bijan.

Received on Friday, 20 March 2009 08:35:32 UTC