Re: adding PlainLiteral to the document at http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns

From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: adding PlainLiteral to the document at http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:23:44 -0500

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Peter F.Patel-Schneider
> <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote:
>> <rdfs:Datatype
>> rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#PlainLiteral">
>>  <rdfs:subClassOf
>>  rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Literal"/>
>>  <rdfs:isDefinedBy rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"/>
>>  <rdfs:label>Plain Literal</rdfs:label>
>>  <rdfs:comment>The class of RDF plain literal values.</rdfs:comment>
>> </rdfs:Datatype>
>>
>> *********************************
>>
>> Why is the rdfs:isDefinedBy bit above insufficient to satisfy
> 
> Because there is no link to the specification. If I encountered this
> piece of rdf, I wouldn't know where to find something a human could
> read to understand what it's about. Speaking as a linked data
> consumer.
> 
> -Alan

So you want to do something *more* for rdf:PlainLiteral than is done for
any of the rest of the RDF vocabulary at
http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns.

Of course, I know how to find out something a human can read to
understand what a piece of W3C stuff is about.  It's called Googling.

peter

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