Re: ISSUE-77: Should we mark rdf:Seq as archaic (cf ISSUE-24)

On 15 Oct 2011, at 12:30, Ian Davis <id@talis.com> wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2011, at 11:12, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote:
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>> On 15 October 2011 11:01, Ian Davis <id@talis.com> wrote:
>>> FWIW I find the term archaic slightly derogatory.
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>> I've used it in FOAF since it doesn't offend me as editor of FOAF
>> spec; and as for instance data publishers, I think it has about the
>> right level of unsettlingness about it. But I'm curious if it is also
>> derogatory to publishers of data that use the old-fashioned terms.
>> That wouldn't be so nice...
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> I thinknits different in a formal standard. Companies don't like it
> when their competitors characterise them as relying on archaic
> technology.
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Yes, I never initially anticipated it being used for core technology constructs - and definitely not non-vocab pieces like parser bahaviour. Seq is very infrastructural but also 'just vocab', so is a bit awkward. Personally I would btw argue that rdf:Statement is rather archaic, but I accept the above argument as a good reason for W3C not to proclaim this.

Dan

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