Re: single property not required (Datatypes)

On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 12:15  AM, Patrick Stickler wrote:

> Binding a given property to only the global/inline idiom or only the 
> local idiom is too burdensome for users -- having to both keep track 
> of which variant property expects which kind of value

This should be clear from the name

> and having to potentially convert RDF statements between 
> idioms/properties.

This is far easier than when you conflate them. At least with the tools 
I use.

> taking untidy literals also allows a choice between having a single 
> property for datatype value objects or two properties, one for values 
> and one for lexical representations.

Why would you want to do that?

> Thus, those who want to do things using tidy semantics, are free to do 
> so, even with literals having untidy treatment in the MT

Not really, we still have to deal with people who have chosen to take 
advantage of untidy treatment. Since tools (like CWM) can't convert 
between the two you'd end up with two camps of data that wouldn't work 
with each other.
-- 
Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com] I am large, I contain multitudes.

Received on Monday, 19 August 2002 18:32:53 UTC