RDF Schema abstract

• From: Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
• Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:15:54 +0100
• To: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <52966F1A.1010304@vu.nl>

I'm doing the final changes on the RDF Schema draft. I wanted to run one 
thing first by the WG, namely the one-sentence abstract of what RDF 
Schema is.

One option is to take the characterization given in the Semantics document:

   RDF Schema extends RDF to a larger vocabulary with more
   complex semantic constraints.

However, I think using the term "vocabulary" in this way will confuse 
people with a data-modelling background. Taking a data-modelling 
perspective RDF Schema should probably be seen as a Enhanced Entity 
Relationship data-modelling language [1]. I therefore propose the 
following abstract:

   RDF Schema provides a data-modelling vocabulary for RDF data.

Feedback appreciated.

Guus

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_entity%E2%80%93relationship_model

Received on Wednesday, 27 November 2013 22:16:15 UTC