- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 15:53:58 +0100
- To: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 05:28 PM 9/25/01 -0400, Eric Miller wrote: >Scope and Goals >To explain RDF to the end user in such a way they in turn > can explain it to others Good. >To explain the benifits of a common model Good. >To provide clear guidence to an end user how to use a > vocabulary in RDF Good. >To provide clear guidence to an end user how to create to > create instance data based on supporting vocabularies Good. >To clearly demonstrate to the end user the benifits of > this approach Good. >To highlight example applications that benifit from these > methodologies... we're asking people to do extra work, we > need to give clear indications of what the benifits of this > extra work provides. I don't believe that using RDF necessarily does involve more work for application developers. I think that's something that came about because of the difficulty of understanding RDF M&S 1.0. For specialized (i.e. most) applications, it is possible to define a form of XML that is very close to what one might naturally use, yet which is also fully acceptable to a general RDF parser. My point is to guide developers to a low cost of entry adoption of RDF, rather than try to convince them that it's worth doing a lot of extra work. I personally think the key to this is to show how the graph model relates to "ordinary" XML. >To provide a general definitions of terms and shared > semantics that are common across RDF Core specifications Good. .. Something that I felt was missing here was an explanation of the relationship between the abstract graph syntax and the RDF/XML syntax. At one level, I think we need to encourage designers to use the graph formalism to construct their data models, and separately from that show how the graph is easily represented in RDF. I think the biggest hurdle is to convey the idea of using URIs as property values (as in <ex:property rdf:resource="http://example.com/foo"/>) differently from other values. .. >Open Issues >Take on the explanation/relationship between RDF and XML Ah, I guess this is what I meant above. I could be persuaded to try and draft something. >NTriples representation... this could help/hurt either way I'd play it down here unless it's really needed. >Model Theory explanation e.g. >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Sep/0337.html That's something I suggested ... I would be prepared to have a go at drafting something around this. >various issues really depending on the scope and > goals... RDF primer subgroup to establish goals #g ------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Klyne MIMEsweeper Group Strategic Research <http://www.mimesweeper.com> <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com> ------------------------------------------------------------
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