- From: Schreiber, A.T. <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 16:17:29 +0000
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- CC: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, W3C RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
In the interest of time: you should now feel free to send. Guus > Op 13 dec. 2013 om 17:05 heeft "Ivan Herman" <ivan@w3.org> het volgende geschreven: > > +1 > > Ivan > >> On 13 Dec 2013, at 14:31 , Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> here's the proposed response for ISSUE-176. >> >> >> Dear Richard, >> >> Thank you again for you comment on the RDF 1.1 Concepts document, recorded >> by the RDF WG as ISSUE-177. >> >> You noticed that the document does not include a BNF representation of the >> concepts which characterize an RDF graph and suggested that adding one would >> be helpful to developers as it would introduce standard naming conventions. >> >> The working group has decided to not include a BNF representation into RDF >> 1.1 Concepts for a number of reasons. Most importantly, RDF 1.1 Concepts >> tries to clearly separate between the abstract syntax (data model) it >> describes and concrete syntaxes defined in other documents. We believe that >> the addition of BNF to the document would blur that line and confuse readers >> (as it has been the case in the past where RDF/XML was often conflated with >> RDF's data model). >> RDF Concepts already normatively defines all important concepts and >> highlights those definitions visually. Redefining them in BNF would require >> to connect the BNF symbols to the corresponding concepts. Most of these >> symbols would therefore differ only in the capitalization and whitespace and >> thus be of limited practical value. On the other hand, naming symbols which >> have no corresponding concept defined in the current document (e.g., >> literals which are not language-tagged strings) is, as past discussions have >> shown, likely to be very time consuming. Unfortunately, there's only very >> little time left given that WG is nearing the end of its chartered life. >> >> Please reply to this message and let us know whether this is an adequate >> response to your comments. >> >> >> Thanks, >> Markus >> >> >> -- >> Markus Lanthaler >> @markuslanthaler > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C > Digital Publishing Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > GPG: 0x343F1A3D > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf > > > > >
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