- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:25:16 -0400 (EDT)
- To: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
All, I've found a little time this week to get moving on RDFS again. Not a huge amount of progress to show, but a URL for the current (evolving) copy of the document. http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/Schema/20010913/ [[ This document is an internal Working Draft of the World Wide Web Consortium RDF Core Working group. This text is undergoing active editorial work and is subject to change; the draft you are looking at is an evolving snapshot for the RDFCore WG to consider. TODO items are marked @@TODO; these all need to be addressed before wider circulation. Specifically, this text does not yet reflect all of the decisions made during the RDF Core meeting of Aug 1st-2nd. ]] The previous internal WD version is now frozen at: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/Schema/20010618/ and constitutes the document in its first "RDF Core" incarnation. The new URL given above will be where the doc will evolve until we have something that starts to look like a release candidate. Changes: - have been pretty minimal... - Shortened! The old, outdated, scope section has been cut; the text may be useful for the forthcoming Primer, and new scoping text, for example anticipating future Web Ontology language work, may need adding. - editorial task list added to Status section (diffs / CVS logs available on request, as the changes are folded in) - the XHTML tidied, indented properly (using tidy -m -asxml -indent) - I've begun to extract the RDF examples, for validation and, perhaps, to include in the test suite - the "subProperties inherit conjunctively" decision has been reflected in the text - outdated portions (eg. old forward-refs to the XML datatypes work) have been flagged with @@TODO in the text My current attention is on a rewrite / reorganisation of section 3.0 to reflect the new semantics for domain and range, and to improve general readability. The text is currently IMHO a mess, and needs a makeover. Currently I'm working on folding in the main new change to the spec: the newly meaningful domain/range constraints. I don't like the current example (Van/Car/etc) as a way of introducing and explaining domain and range; it doesn't really help. So I am thinking an example closer to the domain/range diagram from the old MCF spec, see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML-970624/#sec2. will make for a more readable and understandable spec. I'm working on a new version of the domain/range part of the spec with this in mind, will have something out over the weekend for your consideration. A related question: the figures in the spec all need updating. To date we have been using MS Word Draw, and this is starting to prove a nuisance (not least since I don't run MS Office). Can anyone recommend candidate diagram-editing tools that might be useful for our specs? Linux, or Windows, either would do. Dan -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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