Re: status RDF Primer

On 13-11-13 20:09, Dan Brickley wrote:
> On 13 November 2013 19:00, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote:
>> On 13-11-13 19:51, Dan Brickley wrote:
>>> On 13 November 2013 14:10, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote:
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>>> Can you say a few words about where the Primer stops, and where
>>> Concepts starts? What's the scope for primer...?
>>
>>
>> The Primer is informative. The purpose is to give a light-weight
>> introduction into the RDF 1.1 world. It doesn't have the pretense of being
>> complete. For example, the document doesn't mention that graph names can be
>> blank nodes, the table with RDF Schema constructs lists a small subset, etc.
>> Also, it should contain easy-to-understand but realistic examples.
>>
>> OK?
>>
>> We should probably make this purpose clear in the document.
>
> Thanks. The reason I ask is that a commentator who shall remain
> nameless said something (about RDF Core) along lines of "W3C ... they
> managed to turn the RDF Primer into a 100 page document...". It would
> be great to have a primer that fits on 2 sides of A4... is that over
> idealistic?

Good point. Maybe the adagium "if I had had more time I would have been 
shorter" holds here.  For the moment we could tell readers that Secs. 
3-5 act as a bluffers guide to RDF 1.1. Those sections span in total (in 
my print) about 6 pages.

Guus


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