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

On 19 October 2011 16:43, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com> wrote:
> On 2011-10-17, at 15:32, Sandro Hawke wrote:
> ...
>>> +1 to setting up an XG to look into list literals, graph literals and similar.
>>>
>>> RDF-WG should standardize what's already used and shown to work. A focused XG is a good place for doing some research and developing proposals for RDF2.
>>
>> I agree re list-literals.    Not sure about graph-literals.
>>
>> I'm not really comfortable with giving no guidance whatsoever about Seq
>> and Lists.  My perception is there's general (if not unanimous)
>> agreement that Lists are better than Seq,
>
> Interesting - in my corner of the RDF world, mostly database geeks, it seems like the lists (Collections) get more bile. I think database geeks are outnumbered by logic geeks though, in the semweb world.

I dunno. If you count everyone deploying RDFa, there are a lot of
'desperate perl hacker' esque people. Both Seq and lists/collections
are frustrating. It depends what you're doing, how big your data is,
etc. Since everyone hopes RDF / SW will find a broader audience, it's
worth bearing the non-logic-geeks in mind, even if they're in a
minority when you look at SemWeb conference attendence figures or
journal publications...

Dan

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