RDF Resource

• From: Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:53:56 -0400
• To: <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <20110414.085356.142740077758555528.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

Section 4.2 of 
RDFa API: An API for extracting structured data from Web documents, 
W3C Working Draft 23 September 2010
has a category called RDFResource that is a proper subset of RDFNode,
and not a superset of TypedLiteral or PlainLiteral.

I feel strongly that this is wrong in two ways:
1/ resource is a semantic notion in RDF but node is a syntactic one
2/ resources in RDF include literals, both plain and typed

I'm not sure just what to name this, however, as the obvious choice,
RDFSubject, has other problems.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Bell Labs Research

Received on Thursday, 14 April 2011 12:54:53 UTC