- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:28:08 +0200
- To: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
On May 25, 2011, at 13:16 , Richard Cyganiak wrote: > On 25 May 2011, at 11:58, Ivan Herman wrote: >> From where I stand, I would opt for the creation of an HTML5+RDFa file, with a (probably off-line generated) RDF/XML and Turtle versions. This can be set up via content negotiations. This is the way >> >> http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfa >> >> has been set up. > > This is the approach I had in mind. > >> But we should realize that in view of the size of the vocabulary, this is a non-trivial amount of work. >> >> Another possibility is to mark up the RDF Schema document[1] with RDFa right from the start so that we could extract the RDF/XML or Turtle automatically by some RDFa tools (my distiller can do that without problem). > > Well, and perhaps a simple HTML reference document can be generated from the RDF and served at the namespace as well via conneg? This would fulfill my requirement that the namespace should have a human-readable view as well. > > Note that I don't see that working for the rdf: namespace because its definitions are scattered over several documents and the terms are not presented in a way that would facilitate the extraction of, for example, useful rdfs:comments. > >> I am really in favour of the latter, ie, to use RDFa as part of the Schema document. If we have to have a separate document in the namespace, we are bound to introduce errors... > > I share the concern about duplication of information. But RDFS needs both a narrative specification document and a term-by-term reference. My experience from other vocabularies is that it can be hard to satisfy both needs with a single document. OTOH I trust the experience of the RDFS editor in these matters :-) > Ok, I guess we share the same concerns, and we will see how it goes. But I agree that we should follow the ns/rdfa model. (alas!, it is not possible to define a new vocabulary URI for rdf and rdfs; it would be sooooo much better to use http://www.w3.org/ns/rdf http://www.w3.org/ns/rdfs :-( > Best, > Richard ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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