Re: Use of XSD namespace in RDF recommendations

Ivan, Antoine, Dan, Richard, Jeremy,

I guess I like the idea of informatively linking to both the 2006 SWBP Note on datatypes [1] and to the OWL 2 datatype definition mechanism [2], stating that both XML Schema and OWL 2 provide facilities for formally defining RDF datatypes, but that support for neither mechanism is required for RDF.

Jeremy: Is [1] still considered up-to-date, or should we avoid drawing attention to it?

Antoine, Ivan, Dan: Perhaps one of you wants to take a stab at drafting a sentence that could be inserted into the Datatypes section [3] as another Note?

Cheers,
Richard

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-xsch-datatypes/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-syntax/#Datatype_Definitions
[3] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-concepts/index.html#section-Datatypes


On 4 Sep 2012, at 18:38, Ivan Herman wrote:

> Dan,
> 
> the question is of course justified, but I should also add that, in fact, very very few people use xmls schema datatype definitions together with RDF, too. In both cases the difficulty is identical: to understand and process those datatypes an external 'tool' has to be brought in: either an xml schema or an owl processor... Mainly in a non-XML RDF world (ie, as Richard said, with a diminishing usage of RDF/XML) the chance of using XML schema based derived datatypes is getting smaller and smaller in my view.
> 
> I find the OWL 2 datatype definition possibilities one of the most interesting and potentially important part of OWL 2. I actually wish the relevant part of the specification was also made more known and possibly used in isolation; at present it is burried in the overall OWL 2 spec, which is of course not an easy read...
> 
> (Maybe it is worth some extra blog/note)
> 
> Ivan
> 
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> 
> On 4 Sep 2012, at 15:37, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 4 September 2012 21:11, Antoine Zimmermann
>> <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> wrote:
>>> FWIW, OWL 2 has a feature to define custom datatypes that can be written
>>> completely in RDF, without using XML Schema.
>>> 
>>> Your example for Chapman codes can be written as follows, in Turtle syntax:
>>> 
>>> @prefix geo: <http://www.example.com/geo#>
>>> @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
>>> @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
>>> @prefix rdfs:<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
>>> 
>>> geo:chapman-code  a  rdfs:Datatype;
>>>   owl:equivalentClass  [
>>>       a  rdfs:Datatype;
>>>       owl:onDatatype  xsd:string;
>>>       owl:withRestriction ( [xsd:pattern "[a-zA-Z]{3}"] )
>>>   ] .
>> 
>> Interesting! Are many of these showing up "in the wild" yet?
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>

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