- From: Adrian Walker <adrianw@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:18:59 -0400
- To: Andrea Splendiani <andrea.splendiani@unimib.it>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
Hi Andrea --
At 07:18 PM 6/15/2006 +0200, you wrote
>I'd like to hear some comment on the following issue:
>Where is the limit between information and meta-information in RDF ?
>
>RDF can be used to describe "resources" and meta-information
>relating them, but at the same time it can be used to "encapsulate"
>all infromation and not only meta-information (sorry for my wording,
>I hope this is understeandable enough).
>
>Which do you think it's the most appropriate use ?
>
>When RDF is used to represent OWL, there is also some easy
>misunderstanding possible, since a piece of information represented
>in a file is intuitevely closed-world. But this is may not really be
>important....
One approach is to use RDF as triples of facts only, and to move everything
else to the "logic, proof and trust" part of the Semantic Web Layer
Cake. Examples:
www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RDFQueryLangComparison1.agent
www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OwlTest1.agent
http://www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/RelBioOntDefn3.agent
HTH. -- Adrian
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