- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 10:01:58 +0100 (BST)
- To: Sergey Melnik <melnik@db.stanford.edu>
- cc: RDFCore WG <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Sergey Melnik wrote: > Jan, > > thanks very much for the reference! I was unaware of your work. I'll > definitely include yours and Graham's links to any summary to be > produced on the topic. > > Assuming that resource constants (URIs) are atomic, your suggestion > seems even more elegant. In this case, as you point out, both resource > and literal constants can be generalized as (URI, unicode) entity > constants so that a resource constant could be represented as (xsd:URI, > "http://www.w3.org/"). Actually, I'd like to distinguish accurately the difference between a resource (a placeholder for some "thing") that's _labelled_ (named?) with a URI, and "the text of the URI considered as a literal". Unless there is no difference; I'm not convinced that ought to be the case. > I'm still wondering how important is the ability > (or inability) to discern the namespaces of URIs. After all, the ability > to download the schema describing a property or a datatype seems useful > (and intended by M&S...) > > Sergey > > > Jan Grant wrote: > > > > I've been thinking along very similar lines. See > > http://ioctl.org/rdf/literals > > which has a mix of related ideas, some good, some bad, some wrong. > > Would paste in the relevant text here (apologies for not doing so) but > > very slow line to university at the moment. > > jan > > -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk perl -e 's?ck?t??print:perl==pants if $_="Just Another Perl Hacker\n"'
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