- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:14:32 -0500
- To: Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
On 16 Sep 2009, at 4:38 AM, Norman Gray wrote: > > Greetings. > > The Semantic Web page on the beta.w3.org site was recently mention > on public-lod@w3.org <http://beta.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/>. Hello Norman, thanks for writing. > > It looks very attractive, but: > > * Under the 'Inference' head you have what appears to be a funny > character (intended to be a dash?) after 'one finds inference'. > It's probably just an encoding slipup. Changed to ":" > > * <hobbyhorse>'Linked data are...'? I am most emphatic that 'data' > is a mass noun, and therefore singular. Since some are rash enough > to disagree, the argument can probably be sidestepped by something > like 'The linked data project is empowered...' or 'This linked data > web is empowered...'</hobbyhorse> Changed to "is." I think there are two camps. I "naturally" say "data is" but sometimes think theoretically I should say "are." Am happy to go with "is" and see what storm ensues (storms ensue?). _ Ian -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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