- From: Nathan <nathan@webr3.org>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:41:16 +0100
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>, Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>, David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>, Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Ivan Mikhailov <imikhailov@openlinksw.com>
fyi: TimBL has just updated http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html to now read: 3- 'When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)' .. 'The basic format here for RDF/XML, with its popular alternative serialization N3 (or Turtle).' To clarify that N3's good for Linked Data Best, Sandro Hawke wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:10 +0100, Nathan wrote: >> In all honesty, if this doesn't happen, I personally will have no choice >> but to move to N3 for the bulk of things, and hope for other >> serializations of N3 to come along. > > RIF (which became a W3C Recommendation last week) is N3, mutated (in > some good ways and some bad ways, I suppose) by the community consensus > process. RIF is simultaneously the heir to N3 and a standard business > rules format. > > RIF's central syntax is XML-based, but there's room for a presentation > syntax that looks like N3. RIF includes triples which can have > literals as subject, of course. (In RIF, these triples are called > "frames". Well, sets of triples with a shared subject are called > frames, technically. But they are defined by the spec to be an > extension of RDF triples.) > > -- Sandro
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