- From: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 09:49:46 -0600
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
> The complexification (sic) you refer to. Is that because RDF is (now) > complex or is it because we are not explaining it well. > > There is not much we can do about the former. The latter, however, is > another matter. Explaining it better might help, but it's not really the problem. It's just sort of the combination of decisions that seemed sort of innocent together (using IRIs, datatypes, canonicalized XML, language identifiers, fragment identifiers, bNodes, not to mention all the new RDF/XML syntax) are together quite complicated. It's not really the working group's fault and certainly not yours--W3C process seems almost designed to encourage such things. We might be able to help some by just not covering a lot of this stuff in the primer. Currently it's 40 printed pages in a very small font, which may scare away those who thought they were getting the condensed version. -- Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com] "Curb your consumption," he said.
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