- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@Baltimore.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:14:28 +0100
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 09:40 AM 5/3/01 +0100, Brian McBride wrote:
>The points that Frank has raised are substantive; I'm not sure that the
>rdfms-assertion issue is going to be easy to deal with. For example, you say
>that the 'sender' is asserting any RDF statements 'sent' to be true. Who
>is the
>sender, e.g. in the case of RDF embedded in your home page? Your isp? When
>this issue was raised at the rdf-interest f2f, there was a suggestion that
>such
>assertions should have consequences in law, e.g. if they are libelous -
>how does
>one determine exactly what has been said in a way that will work in court?
>These are deep waters. What do you think of following Frank's suggestion and
>separating the mime-type issue from the assertion issue?
There has been some suggestion that:
"top-level" RDF statements are asserted in the context in which they
appear, and that reification, rather than being a mechanism for quoting,
might be viewed as a syntactic device for nesting RDF statements in other
RDF statements. The effect is close to the current situation, but might
help to resolve some of the semantic issues that have been raised. The
reference to "context in which it occurs" avoids the issue of having to
assign provenance when it isn't known.
(I'm not convinced this is the right way, just raising it.)
#g
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