- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:46:45 -0400
- CC: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
Ivan, I really need some clarification about the Layer Cake: 1. What does URI/IRI mean or imply in the context of the layer cake? 2. What does XML mean or imply (likewise) such that it occupies a slot without N3, Turtle, or TriX? I am very picky about this Layer Cake update because I am (and I assume many others are too) really picky about clarifying the Semantic Web vision and message. At the start of my participation in mailing list I made it very clear that disambiguation of RDF is vital to our common goal of eradicating (within reason) the dire misrepresentation of the Semantic Web vision and RDF Data Model that permeates our industry at large. From my vantage point: 1. URIs expose Data Sources on the Web (the concept of Data Sources is much easier to understand than "URI" without qualification) 2. XML plays a vital role in RDF, it's critical middleware infrastructure for GRDDL and other techniques for producing RDF from non RDF amongst other things, I know it's the W3C's official serialization etc., but none of this is congruent with its placement in the Layer Cake while N3, Turtle, and TriX are left out. Ironically, XML is what is good about RDF as well as what is bad about RDF (from the PR and general education perspective). This point of view has nothing to do with the XML itself, just everything to do with inadvertent misrepresentation in the context of the RDF Data Model (an integral part of the Semantic Web vision). I would like to suggest the following: 1. [URI/IRI (Data Sources)] as an enhancement of the [URI/IRI] box that exists right now 2. [RDF Data Model] as a replacement of the current [RDF Interchange: RDF] Re. point 2, we need to express the role of serialization / interchange and the types of serializations formats. Ideally, via little boxes within the Data Model box (towards the top which indicates the point where interchange occurs). I think we need to resolve this matter urgently and I am hoping we can arrive at some consensus via this mailing list. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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