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Re: Subjects as Literals

From: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:06:13 -0700
Message-ID: <4C2D57A5.2010309@topquadrant.com>
To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
CC: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
  On 7/1/2010 7:51 PM, Pat Hayes wrote:
>
> The mistake here is to presume that simple character strings in RDF 
> are being used as though they were words. But this is such a basic 
> error that I doubt if anyone who holds it is going to be able to use 
> RDF successfully in any case.
>
>

Pat - one of the key problems with subject as literals, is that this 
basic error will be compounded in "spades" - particularly by people who 
have been told by their managers to make their data public.
& yes, the people trying to consume the data will not be able to use it 
successfully.

Jeremy
Received on Friday, 2 July 2010 03:06:36 UTC

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