- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:16:32 +0100
- To: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
I thought it might be helpful to sketch out the goals and audience for each
of the RDFCore documents to provide some context for discussion of the new
document.
This is a strawman; I haven't discussed this with the various editors.
Primer
======
Goals:
o provide introductory material for newbies
o Explain how to use RDF(S)
Primary Audience: everyone
RDF/XML Syntax
==============
Goals:
o A specification of the RDF/XML language
o A specification of the meaning of RDF/XML in terms of a translation to the
graph syntax, as represented in n-triples.
Primary Audience:
o Parser writers
o developers of applications that write RDF/XML
o users who write RDF/XML by hand
RDF Data Model
==============
Goals:
o A specification of the RDF graph syntax and graph equality
o A specification statements are assertions
Primary Audience:
o tool developers
o RDF application developers
o RDF writers
o Vocabulary developers
RDF Schema
==========
Goals:
o A specification of RDF Schema vocabulary
o A specification of miscellaneous bits of the RDF vocabulary from M&S
Audience:
o tool developers
o RDF application developers
o RDF writers
o Vocabulary developers
RDF Semantics
=============
o A formal specification of the semantics of the RDF and RDFS languages
Primary Audience:
o designers of formal languages based on RDF
RDF Datatypes
=============
Goals:
o A specification of how to represent typed data values in RDF
Primary Audience:
o tool developers
o application developers
o vocabulary developers
o rdf writers
RDF Test Cases
==============
Goals:
o to capture examples illustrating decisions of the WG
Primary Audience:
o tool developers
Received on Friday, 28 June 2002 09:17:28 UTC