- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:00:07 -0600
- To: Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl>
- Cc: RDF WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
To me, the idea that entities and relationships were invented by Peter Chen in 1958 is a bit like saying that Bill Gates invented numbers. But more seriously, see below On Nov 27, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Guus Schreiber <guus.schreiber@vu.nl> wrote: > 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. I know this says "a" rather than "the", but its being in the spec surely suggests that RDFS is somehow singled out as being the correct or primary or basic data-modelling vocabulary, which is potentially misleading. Suggest a slight modification along these lines: > RDF Schema provides a simple data-modelling vocabulary for RDF data. Other publications, including SKOS [ ] and the W3C Recommendation OWL2 [ ], define more elaborate data models which extend RDFS in various ways. Pat > > > Feedback appreciated. > > Guus > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_entity%E2%80%93relationship_model > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile (preferred) phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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