- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:58:00 +0000
- To: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com>
- Cc: RDFa Community <public-rdfa@w3.org>, "public-rdfa-wg@w3.org" <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
Hi Gregg, > However, the inability to reasonably serialize RDF lists in > RDFa is a shortcoming. In a way you could say that the shortcoming is in RDF, not RDFa, in that there is no clear frontrunner for describing lists in RDF. Coming up with a /syntax/ for lists in RDFa is really easy -- after all, HTML and XHTML already support lists so it doesn't take much to piggy-back those. But whilst it's obvious what we can 'hang' our RDFa syntax on, it's not so obvious what that syntax should 'mean'. I think we did the right thing by not defining any lists until it was clear which lists the community wanted, but you're right that now might be a good time to crack this one. (I've used OWL and SKOS together in RDFa to create 'self-documenting' ontologies, and as Toby says, rdf:Lists are painful; I'd certainly vote for sorting that problem out in RDFa.) Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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