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- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 10:51:04 +0000
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RDF-ISSUE-149: LC comment: Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to interpretations [RDF Semantics] http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/track/issues/149 Raised by: Guus Schreiber On product: RDF Semantics Comment by David Booth: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-comments/2013Oct/0010.html https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-mt/index.html Section 5.2 Intuitive summary needs to be scoped to a particular interpretation or set of interpretations. At present the interpretations are implicit, and this is misleading because it suggests that the notion of a graph being true is somehow independent of an interpretation, whereas in fact the truth of a graph critically depends on the interpretations that are chosen. I suggest rewording the first sentence of this section from: "An RDF graph is true exactly when: . . . " to: "An RDF graph is true exactly when there exists an interpretation such that: . . . " Also, the verb "interpret" is being used in this clause: "2. there is some way to interpret all the blank nodes in the graph as referring to things,", but that causes confusion with the notion of an interpretation (which is a function). It would be better to use a different verb at this point. Also point 4 mentions "these interpretations", but it isn't clear what interpretations are meant. Perhaps it means the results of the verb "interpret" in item 2? In which case, a different word should be used here also. Thanks, David
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