- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:00:32 +0300
- To: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
I would like to propose the following changes/clarifications be made to the datatyping spec (the latest restructured document) based on recent discussions: 1. Replace the usage of rdf:type for typed literals to rdf:datatype (having the pairing rdf:datatype/rdfs:Datatype mirror the current pairing rdf:resource/rdfs:Resource for syntactic attributes taking URIref values and which identify members of a specific class). 2. Move section 1.2 Desiderada to a non-normative appendix. 3. Streamline introductory material, with references to the other specs as appropriate. 4. Clarify the nature of literals in section 1.5 and the nature of typed literals in section 2.3 so that it is clear that all that is relevant to datatyping is the unicode string component, no matter how many other components may exist within a literal's structure. 5. Clarify the relation of rdfs:Literal, rdfs:Datatype, and typed literal (begs the question of whether rdfs:TypedLiteral is warranted, as a subclass of rdfs:Literal...) 6. Clarify the verbage in section 3.1, Global Datatyping Assertions, so that it is clear that RDF does not assert any constraints, but only that an application is free to do so (reference to other specs as appropriate which discusss this nature of rdfs:range in general, Primer?) 7. Rework the presentation of Part 2 as "Suggestions for Future Work" (or split it off into an entirely different document?) 8. Expand example in 3.1 to include triple with 'age' arc, as suggested. 9. Clarify agnostic position of RDF regarding datatype clashes, as for any contradiction, in section 3.2 I'm sure other changes/modifications/corrections will also be required before we publish the first WD, but the above seemed to be the major ones for the moment. I'm still awaiting comments from Pat and Sergey... Is the above OK with the WG? Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Chief Technology Specialist Forum Nokia, Nokia Mobile Phones patrick.stickler@nokia.com (+358 50) 483 9453
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