- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:12:46 +0100
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
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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