Re: RDF Resource

Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote:
> 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.

Hi Peter,

This has changed since, and indeed is part of the RDF API now (with 
different names), see:

   http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdf-api/#overview

Best,

Nathan

Received on Thursday, 14 April 2011 13:02:40 UTC