Re: (tentative) container model proposal

At 11:23 PM 6/6/01 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote:
>    If the permissive reading is taken, and RDF databases, APIs etc are
>    allowed to represent partial (gappy) information about containers, a
>    substantial simplification to the "formal model" section of RDF M+S
>    becomes possible: the text, making no strong claims about RDF
>    implementations, can be removed (or transferred to a less central part
>    of the spec). RDF Schema already contains a section describing Model
>    and Syntax constructs; it is proposed that the section of M+S formal
>    model relating to containers be moved to RDF Schema.

Moving containers out of the core works for me.  I think it's far from 
clear that the specified way of representing collections is always the 
best, and (history aside) don't see why it should have such distinguished 
status.

#g


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Received on Tuesday, 12 June 2001 10:25:26 UTC