- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:14:06 +0000
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>, pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
At 14:48 30/10/2002 -0500, Frank Manola wrote: >The Primer calls RDF a "data model" in several places. Do you want me to >change it? I think that is a judgement call for you Frank. In trying to get some consistency of presentation I'm heading towards RDF is a language with one abstract syntax and several concrete syntaxes as being the 'formal' model of what we think RDF is. I know not everyone is comfortable with that, but we need to pick one. However, as Graham has pointed out, when explaining things to folks, the term 'data model' might well be more appropriate so, if in context you think data model is a better term, then there is no blanket - "you are not allowed to use that term" injunction. Jeremy's text, something along the lines of RDF's Abstract Syntax, sometimes called the RDF Data Model, ... seemed to me to set the right sort of tone. Brian
Received on Thursday, 31 October 2002 12:11:31 UTC