- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:01:41 +0100
- To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net>
- Cc: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, semantic-web@w3.org
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil@kjernsmo.net> wrote: > On Monday 18. January 2010 17:59:26 Pat Hayes wrote: >> But how else would you naturally express a property of anything in >> RDF, than by writing a triple? It sounds like you want to not be using >> RDF at all :-) > > Oh, yes, I do! We already have precedent: datatypes and languages are > "properties" of literals, and I think units should be done in much the same > way, unless we find a way to do it in a more general way, that is also > simple enough in practice. How far can we go by overloading the existing datatyping mechanism? ie. decorate literals with URIs that stand for particular encodings of particular units? Dan
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