Re: true/false in RDF?

Joshua Allen wrote:
>> The fact that the page is cached is not a 
>> property of the page, so describing it as 
>> such in the model is (IMO) a bad thing, 
>> that's the pollution I try and avoid.
> 
> Isn't it even worse to describe being cached 
> as part of the object's nature (it's class)?

IMO yes, it is worse; I'm suggesting something 
else; a separate class "instance" that declares 
that resource-x has been cached.

What this boils down to is that the original 
question asked about using "true" or 
"http://xmlns.com/wordnet/1.6/true", and I'm 
advocating a third way, i.e. Rather than 
encoding the result of the question in the model 
(by providing a boolean value) I favour 
providing the means to answer the question.

-Rich

Received on Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:48:42 UTC