- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 15 Nov 2002 08:33:48 -0600
- To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 12:35, Graham Klyne wrote: > > At 04:20 PM 11/14/02 +0000, Brian McBride wrote: > >I'd like to propose a small number of transfers between docs and invite > >folks to suggest others they feel would be appropriate. > > > >Concepts: > > With reference to: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-concepts-20021108/ Thanks for the pointer, Graham; I wasn't sure what the x.y numbers meant out of context... In general, I prefer to keep the primer lean; I saw more stuff that should go from the primer to the concepts spec when I read them. Let's please keep/make instant gratification as the goal of the primer; let's not put anything between our reader and his goal of cobbling together some RDF/XML documents if we can help it. In particular... > > o 1.2 => primer No, background in databases and knowledge representation isn't needed in a how-to document. > Yes. (Also, the cited references should move over) > > > o 2.1 => primer > > o 2.2 => primer No, let's lease not put motivation nor design goals between the primer user and his/her goal either. > I'm agnostic-to-mildly-against: > > These don't really fit with the stated goal of the primer: > [[ > This Primer is designed to provide the reader with the basic knowledge > required to effectively use RDF. It introduces the basic concepts of RDF > and describes its XML syntax. It describes how to define RDF vocabularies > using the RDF Vocabulary Description Language, and gives an overview of > some deployed RDF applications. It also describes the content and purpose > of other RDF specification documents. > ]] > -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-rdf-primer-20021111/ > > but I'm happy to go with the WG consensus. > > #g > > > ------------------- > Graham Klyne > <GK@NineByNine.org> -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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