- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:02:36 -0600
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>, Geoff Chappell <geoff@sover.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:36 AM, Danny Ayers wrote: > 2010/1/15 Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>: > >> PS: Actually there is one thing which would aid bootstrapped nature >> of RDF: >> >> ex:contains rdf:type rdf:Property ; >> rdfs:comment "property for stating that a reified triple is part of >> graph" ; >> rdfs:range rdf:Statement . > > That's rather neat. > > Pat, I must admit I'm finding myself more aligned with Jiří's > attitude > here, I don't really see a problem with RDF being a LISP-like > language, though I take the point of it being declarative rather than > procedural. Well, OK, I guess there is a real split between the idea of RDF being simply a datastructuring device along the lines of LISP or XML, and its being a language with a semantics (and so supporting inference). Ive always assumed that it was the latter. But if y'all think that the semantic web doesn't need semantics after all, go ahead. I do have other things to do. Pat > We do have things like XSLT to guide us (which isn't too > dissimilar to SPARQL CONSTRUCTs). > > While there does seem to be utility to OWL/OWL2 and full-blown DLs in > general, I would posit that the thing that is more immediate is tying > this stuff to the Web, instead of using programming cycles to discover > inferences, doing a HTTP GET and getting more information that way. > > Clearly it's possible to expose RDBMSs as triples, but ordered Lists & > things are still a pain - might it not be possible to sprinkle a > little more sugar over the syntax to make things like n-ary > relations/n-tuples more straightforward, without any major hacking on > the model? (caveat - IANAL either). > > Cheers, > Danny. > > > -- > http://danny.ayers.name > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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