- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:20:34 -0500
- To: David Booth <david@dbooth.org>
- cc: Graham Klyne <GK-lists@ninebynine.org>, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, semantic-web@w3.org
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 10:14 +0000, Graham Klyne wrote: > > One of the things I failed to realize in time to > > put my weight behind it was that an approach to datatyping based on > > interpretation properties, which was proposed by Dan Connolly, could be as > > convenient to use, if not more so, than the current datatyping scheme, and > would > > keep the core of RDF very much simpler. > > I agree. The interpretation properties[1] approach is very general, > clean and logical. If it feels inconvenient, that seems to me like an > argument for syntactic sugar rather than a different approach. > > 1. http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/InterpretationProperties.html I think the interesting and practical work here would be to specify and demonstrate how to use Interpretation Properties in a way that is 100% compatible with RDF as specified. I think that's the only way to move forward with this kind of work. -- Sandro
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