[SKOS] serialization of examples (related to Issue-67?) (was Re: Comments on SKOS Primer)

Hi Tom, Ralph, Guus

I would like to question authorities about the following aspect
> 1. Serialization of examples
>
>    Last week I suggested that using triples in SKOS Reference
>    would be both more precise and more readable than trying
>    to state the model in prose [2,3].  Alistair has turned
>    this into an Issue-67 [4].
>
>    The SKOS Primer uses N3 throughout, so this document does
>    show triples in a precise, readable form.  According to
>    the Abstract, however, the audience for the Primer is
>    "implementors... who would like to represent their concept
>    scheme using SKOS".  Further on it constrains this audience
>    to "implementors who have a basic understanding of RDF".
>    (N3 is not yet cited in the References; Google
>    points me to [5]).

Writing this part of the Primer, it was actually unclear to me if N3 was 
an obvious choice, as it is not a formal recommendation.
Also, how about Turtle [7] , which is used by Alistair in the Primer? I 
think that there is no difference wrt what we want to represent, but 
still some W3C advice on the best choice could be useful.

Best,

Antoine
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/wiki/SKOS/DraftPrimer?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=SKOSPrimer-080108.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/SKOS/reference/20071223
> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swd-wg/2008Jan/0000.html
> [4] http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/67
> [5] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html
> [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide/
>   
[7] http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/

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