- From: patrick hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:56:51 -0500
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Dan, > >I agree with your "gut feel". At the level of description provided >by MIME content-types, I think that all RDF "languages" are >effectively the same. I agree. But is RDF the same as RDFS (and how about RDFD ??). This question may be relevant to Massimo's worries about exactly how to specify conformance, BTW. Pat >Indeed, I think it should/will be the norm that different schema are >mixed in a single document, and any processing rules implied by the >MIME type should not vary based on the schema employed. > >The situation is different if languages layered on RDF have >syntactic as well as schema extensions (or other fundamental >extensions that go beyond the RDFcore language): e.g. DAML and its >collection syntax. In these cases, I think there is probably some >need for a separate MIME type. > >#g >-- > >At 09:07 PM 5/21/02 -0400, Dan Brickley wrote: > >>Excuse the crosspost (RDFCore WG and SemWeb Coordination Group). Please >>direct followups to one of these lists. >> >> >>The TAG are making decisions about media type registration that affect W3C >>WGs who are defining 'languages'. We might want to consider whether RDF >>(RDFCore, RDFS, WebOnt, ...) is, for these purposes, one or several >>'languages'. We might also want to consider whether each new RDF Schema >>that a (working) group defines is a 'language' in the sense used in this >>TAG proposal. My gut reaction is that registering an Internet Media Type >>for each new RDF Schema would be counter-productive. RDF is designed for >>fine-grained mixing; Media Types are useful for course-grained dispatching >>based on content type. But I need to think about this some more... >> >>There isn't much time till their suggested closure date of May 28th. I'm >>not sure what the next sensible step is? Brian, EricM, DanC? >> >>Dan >> >> >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:04:14 -0400 >>From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> >>To: xml-dist-app@w3.org >>Subject: [ij@w3.org: Proposed TAG Finding: Internet Media Type registration, >> consistency of use] >>Resent-Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 20:56:08 -0400 (EDT) >>Resent-From: xml-dist-app@w3.org >> >>This is primarily in response to our questions to the TAG. >> >>----- Forwarded message from "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org> ----- >> >>Message-ID: <3CEAA246.6060806@w3.org> >>Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 15:38:46 -0400 >>From: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org> >>Organization: W3C >>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) >>Gecko/20020412 Debian/0.9.9-6 >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>To: www-tag@w3.org >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>Subject: Proposed TAG Finding: Internet Media Type registration, >>consistency of use >>X-Mailing-List: <www-tag@w3.org> archive/latest/1217 >>Sender: www-tag-request@w3.org >>List-Id: <www-tag.w3.org> >>List-Help: <http://www.w3.org/Mail/> >>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:www-tag-request@w3.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> >>Hello, >> >>On behalf of the TAG, I have published >> >> "TAG Finding: Internet Media Type registration, >> consistency of use" [1]. >> >>The TAG invites people to review this finding. The TAG >>will consider this finding "accepted" unless there >>is substantial opposition expressed on this list >>prior to 28 May (say, end of day Boston time). >> >>Draft and accepted findings are available at >>the TAG's Web site [2]. >> >>Thank you, >> >> _Ian >> >> >>[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2002/0129-mime >> >> Last modified: $Date: 2002/05/21 19:24:38 $ by >> $Author: ijacobs $. $Revision: 1.24 $ >> >>[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/findings >>-- >>Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >>Tel: +1 718 260-9447 >> >>----- End forwarded message ----- >> >>-- >>Mark Baker, CTO, Idokorro Mobile (formerly Planetfred) >>Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. distobj@acm.org >>http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.idokorro.com > >------------------- >Graham Klyne ><GK@NineByNine.org>
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