- From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:03:20 -0400
- To: Jos de Bruijn <debruijn@inf.unibz.it>
- Cc: RIF <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
The proposal in [2] is not quite clear to me. If I understand it correctly, it is not sufficiently flexible. Moreover, I do not understand why are you talking about external data sets and not about external rulesets. A data set is a special case of a rule set. --michael > i) Metadata in RIF / referring to external data sets, RDF > === > it has long been recognized that RIF needs a mechanism for specifying > metadata. In addition, the current proposal for referring to external > data sets and data models [2] relies on metadata for this reference. > However, the BLD language does not have it. I propose adding adding > metadata to the language as soon as possible. > Additionally, the working group needs to agree on the mechanism and > vocabulary to use for referring to external data sets. Personally, I am > fine with following the proposal in [2]. Fortunately, this is also on > the agenda for today's telephone conference :-) > > I really think these issues need to be resolved before the publication > of the next working draft. > ..... > > [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2007Sep/0001.html > [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Arch/Data_Sets > [3] > http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Arch/RDF#head-cb9271092ef7391c51020efbc1900dfc64edbd08 > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2007Jul/0030.html > [5] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/List_of_functions_and_operators > [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2007Jul/0038.html > -- > Jos de Bruijn debruijn@inf.unibz.it > http://www.debruijn.net/
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