- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 20:32:15 -0600
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Issue > > http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-assertion > >Summary: RDF is not just a data model. The RDF specs should define a >semantics so that an RDF statement on the web is interpreted as an >assertion of that statement such that its author would be >responsible in law as if it had been published in, say, a newspaper. > >Propose that the RDF model theory defines a semantics for RDF and >that this issue be closed. Er...I'm not sure if the MT (or any MT) would quite fix the meaning enough to satisfy a *lawyer*. There are many issues about meaning still left open (eg exactly how to interpret URIs, things like that.). What the MT does do is tie down exactly what it is kosher to *infer* from some RDF. 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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