Re: Notes on updates to RDF Schema

At 08:53 31/10/2002 -0500, Frank Manola wrote:
>The RDF normative specs may or may not define literals as resources, but 
>if they do, they better not do it by saying:
>
> >>>
> >>>   rdfs:Literal rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Resource .
> >>>
>
>because classes (including Literal and Resource) and subclasses are not 
>defined in RDF, they are defined in RDFS (note the namespace prefix). M&S 
>said literals and resources were disjoint, but didn't do it using 
>declarations involving classes.

Where?

>   We're either going to keep these languages separate, or we're not, and 
> either way, we need to be consistent.

Brian

Received on Thursday, 31 October 2002 09:12:03 UTC