- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:40:55 -0600
- To: Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> > > Well hold on. It isn't clear that there are any RDF classes >> denoting >> > datatypes, at present. In the S proposal, for example, >> datatype names >> > are RDF property names, not class names. So I do not know from what >> > population you are getting 'most' here. >> >> Right. I stand corrected. I should have stated "Most RDF resources >> denoting..." > >Actually, I take that back. > >rdfs:range expects a class as its value, and I think it is >a fairly reasonable assumption that data types are classes, >per the semantics of subClassOf, etc. so even though it might >not be strictly stated somewhere that data types are RDF classes, >I think it is fair to assume they are, and perhaps it should >be stated as such. Well, the S proposal would have them be properties. And I have to admit, even though my name is on a different proposal, that this idea of datatypes as properties does rather better capture the intuition that the core notion in datatyping is a *mapping* from a lexical to a value space. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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