Re: Pls Review: New Media Type Draft

Aaron,

Looking good, some comments...

At 11:34 AM 8/23/02 -0500, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>4. Social Context
>
>    RDF/XML documents may be asserted to be true, and such an assertion
>    should be understood to carry the same social import and
>    responsibilities as an assertion in any other format.  A combination
>    of social (e.g.  legal) and technical machinery (protocols, file
>    formats, publication frameworks) provide the contexts that fix the
>    intended meanings of the vocabulary of some piece of RDF, and which
>    distinguish assertions from other uses (e.g.  citations, denals or
>    illustrations).

Typo: 'denals' above.

With reference to DanBri's comment about assertion:  I think the intent is 
already conveyed by section 2, so the 2nd para of section 4 can be dropped 
without loss of meaning.


>5. Fragment Identifiers
>
>    Section 4.1 of the URI specification [5] notes that the semantics of
>    a fragment identifier (part of a URI after a "#") is a property of
>    the data resulting from a retrieval action, and that the format and
>    interpretation of fragment identifiers is dependent on the media type
>    of the retrieval result.
>
>    However, in RDF, the thing identified by a URI with fragment
>    identifier does not bear any particular relationship to the thing
>    identified by the URI alone.  This differs from some readings of the
>    URI specification [5], so attention is recommended when creating new
>    RDF terms which use fragment identifiers.

Hmmm... I'm uncomfortable with that... what is this "thing identified by 
the URI alone"?

How about:
[[
However, when a URI with fragment identifier is used within an RDF document,
the URI part is presumed to refer to an RDF document, and the whole URI
reference indicates a concrete or abstract resource described there
(using rdf:ID or rdf:about in an RDF resource description).
[Reference section 4.2 of "Resource Description Framework (RDF):
Concepts and Abstract Data Model for further explanation.]
]]

>    The rdf:ID and rdf:about attributes can be used to define fragments
>    in an RDF document.

I think this paragraph would usefully go at the top of this section.

#g

Received on Wednesday, 28 August 2002 10:37:48 UTC