- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 03:21:05 -0400
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>
- Cc: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, "tim.glover@bt.com" <tim.glover@bt.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
* Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> [2006-04-02 08:49+0200] > > > On 31 Mar 2006, at 23:58, John F. Sowa wrote: > >Danny, > > > >I don't violently disagree with anything you said, but I > >do have some quibbles and a couple of extra points: > > > >> One of my dayjob contracts requires a kind of validation > >> outside of RDF/OWL, this I'm implementing using custom > >> (mostly hard-coded) logic on top of the RDF/OWL representation. > >> ... Throughout this work I'm mixing and matching numerous > >> RDFS vocabularies/OWL ontologies as demanded by the domain. > > > >I realize that many people have been doing useful work with RDF > >and OWL, and since nothing better is widely available, people > >have to live with what they've been given. But I believe that > >anything that has been done with RDF could have been done sooner, > >better, and with much greater efficiency with an XML tag that > >says LANG=TupleList followed by an enclosed list of tuples in > >the form (and with the option of n-ary tuples as well): > > > > (R1 a b) (R2 c d) (R3 e f) (R4 g h) ... > > There have been numerous xml proposals along this line. Tim Bray > proposed one. > TriX is another [1]. But you could also look at NTriples [3] for a > very simple non xml version. NTriples was based on TimBL's Notation 3, http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html which was also an ancestor of Turtle (a simpler and more triple-centric subset), http://www.dajobe.org/2004/01/turtle/ which itself influenced the design of the SPARQL syntax for querying RDF. In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if folks started using SPARQL notation for writing RDF... Dan
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