Re: Typed literals: current status

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 01:14, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
> 
> 
> Patrick:
> > Are we making it clear somewhere that 'datatype' (unless
> > otherwise specified) refers to an instance of rdfs:Datatype?

In fact, the answer I got about rdf:datatype specifics suggested
to me that we're not using datatype URIs as names at all;
the design doesn't seem to have anything to do with what those
URIs denote.

"unless otherwise specified"??? that's non-monotonic.

> this looks to me like a model theoretic closure rule, possibly at the RDFS
> level (before any specific datatypes are assumed)
> 
> i.e.
> 
> aaa ppp <datatype>lll .
> 
> rdfs-entails
> 
> <datatype> rdf:type rdfs:Datatype .
> 
> 
> Comments, (Pat?)

Gads, I hope not! Up to now, RDFS closures have not
involved deconstructing literals. I hope we
don't start now!

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:18:42 UTC