- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 08:20:51 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
I certainly think this issue can be closed. At the same time (but not really wanting to reopen a closed issue), I'm not sure what "not just a data model" means. Is the intent to suggest that if I say something by creating a triple in RDF (say, "Joe created document foobar"), it has more significance as an assertion than saying the same thing by creating a tuple in a corresponding 3-ary relation in an equally-public relational database? Why? --Frank Brian McBride wrote: > 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. > > Brian > > -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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