- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:22:26 +0100
- To: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>
- Cc: Jiří Procházka <ojirio@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
"Optional" is a very good word, about perfect for such stuff. 2010/1/15 Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>: > Jirí Procházka wrote: > >>I would like RDF to be as lightweight (low level) as possible - if I >>were to make mine RDF, there would be no containers, bnodes, literal >>data types, language tags, maybe even no literals - using data URI >>scheme. Anyway I value compatibility and adoption more than sticking to >>my view of the world so I use RDF as it is. >> >>Other alternative would be to have the low level core, build modules on >>top of it, for example like some programming languages do (Python, >>Java...) and call the whole thing RDF - I guess that is what would make >>most people happy. > > Good point! > > I tend to regard the containers, collections, reification, rdf:value and > rdf:XMLLiteral related sub-vocabularies of RDF to build sort of a "standard > utility library" for RDF, although, of course, this is not really the case. > But for the future of RDF, instead of deprecating or even removing them > completely from the spec, one could also simply "externalize" them into > their own specs as /optional/ features of RDF. > > This reminds me to OWL 2, where the concept of an n-ary datarange is now > also an optional feature, and there is a first type of n-ary dataranges, > namely linear equations, available in its own document [1], maybe others > will follow over time. This strategy settled some longish and heated > discussion within the OWL Working Group about whether n-ary dataranges > should go into the core language or not, and if yes, which and to what > degree, etc. > > [1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-owl2-dr-linear-20091027/> > > Michael > > -- > Dipl.-Inform. Michael Schneider > Research Scientist, Information Process Engineering (IPE) > Tel : +49-721-9654-726 > Fax : +49-721-9654-727 > Email: michael.schneider@fzi.de > WWW : http://www.fzi.de/michael.schneider > ======================================================================= > FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik an der Universität Karlsruhe > Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-76131 Karlsruhe > Tel.: +49-721-9654-0, Fax: +49-721-9654-959 > Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts, Az 14-0563.1, RP Karlsruhe > Vorstand: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Dillmann, Dipl. Wi.-Ing. Michael Flor, > Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolffried Stucky, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer > Vorsitzender des Kuratoriums: Ministerialdirigent Günther Leßnerkraus > ======================================================================= > > -- http://danny.ayers.name
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