- From: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:36:51 -0700
- To: RDFCore WG <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
In the 2001-06-22 telecon we decided to start prioritizing the issues to enable a more effective F2F. I'd like to ask all WG members to express their preferences. I'll try to compile a summary of the contributions. Please try to justify briefly the reasons for the suggestions. If possible, assign the issues to the partitions of [1] or categorize them in some custom way. I'd like to start with my preferences. I am suggesting the following top-level partioning of the problem space (reasons in parentheses): 1. Scope and methods (RDF is expected to serve as a foundation of the Semantic Web, we have to address that) 1.1 Extensibility path - how can RDF be extended incrementally in a well-defined fashion (later WGs)? - how can other languages (incl. logics) be built on top of RDF? 1.2 Definition mechanisms - how is a model feature (reification etc.) or vocabulary defined? - what formal approaches are used? (BNF, tree automata, model theory etc.)? 2. Abstract syntax and semantics of the core (most fundamental issue of [1] since it may have a significant impact on other items) - e.g. definitions of layers like 1-3 of [2] - borrow abstract syntax for a human-readable syntax? (we need a human-readable one early out to communicate effectively on say Schema and vocabulary issues) 3. RDF/XML syntax 4. Schema and other currently built-in vocabularies (e.g. containers) (goes last, since I think there are more advanced languages around like UML, DAML-OIL that serve the purpose better) -- sergey [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jun/0400.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Jun/0167.html
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