- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:43:28 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Brian McBride wrote: > If you know of a previously posted suggestion for a partitioning, or have > one you'd like to propose, please can post (a pointer to) it to the list. Last september (seems so long ago!) Leigh Dodd's wrote a nice piece on xml.com summarising some of the discussions at the time, particularly w.r.t. the (then new) issue list and my strawman 'model only' document. This might be a useful backgrounder for any partitioning discussion, particularly for WG members who didn't follow www-rdf-interest back then... xml.com "Super Model" http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/09/20/rdf/index.html [[ The RDF Interest Group has recently been gathering momentum, and the XML-Deviant takes a look at the progress they're making towards improving understanding of RDF. ]] re-reading http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0074.html and nearby, I'm rather happy with the progress we're making, when compared to the uncertainty of last september. The "model only" document that I prototyped (via crude hacking of the M+S spec document) is IMHO a reminder of the potential for simplicity: From my original posting, http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0072.html [[ BTW, after I took scissors to the M+S spec, this is what happened to the filesize: rdfmodel]$ ls -l Overview.html OriginalREC.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 danbri www 138906 Sep 8 07:45 OriginalREC.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 danbri www 28204 Sep 8 09:45 Overview.html ]] I don't want to slip into a premature discussion regarding partitioning the _specs_; I think you're right to encourage a discussion of problem space partitioning first. I do think though that there is value in having a description of the RDF 'formal model' (aka 'abstract syntax' etc) in isolation both from any specific XML encoding and any specific set of RDF properties and classes. --danbri
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