- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 11:26:47 -0800
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- CC: ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ <perpetual-tripper@wwelves.org>, "public-vocabs@w3.org Vocabs" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
On 11/02/2014 10:16 AM, James M Snell wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2014 9:48 AM, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com > <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>> wrote: > > [...] > > > One very strange aspect of these documents is that they appear to be trying > to create a formal model for activities. However, they use quite a variety of > semi-formal concepts for this purpose. Why not just use a formal modelling > system for this purpose? You wouldn't have to use RDF or OWL if these systems > are in a great disfavour in the working group. > > > > > > How is that strange? Especially given that defining a model for activities is > precisely what the activity streams document does ;-). So far, a formal > modeling system has not been necessary but some steps have been taken in that > direction. Well the strangeness is that it is very hard to figure out just what is supposed to be going on because the foundations are underdefined. > - James peter
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