On 01/18/2010 11:01 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > 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? Hehe, indeed, datatypes can go far... too far... Best, "Jiri Prochazka"^^foaf:PersonType > Dan >
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