- From: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@MIMEsweeper.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:24:31 +0100
- To: "Patrick Stickler" <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- Cc: <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
At 10:21 AM 9/27/02 +0300, Patrick Stickler wrote:
>Why is it such a chore for folks who want inline literals
>to be interpreted as strings to simply declare the intended
>string datatype for those properties, allowing troublefree
>syndication of knowledge from arbitrary systems? E.g.
>
> dan:age rdfs:range xsd:string .
> pat:age rdfs:range xsd:integer .
I think there are many cases (e.g. dublin core, RSS, W3C picture metadata,
etc) where this level of simplification just wouldn't work. These are
systems from the "scruffy" tradition that just aren't too concerned about
whether the values are strings or not, as long as the software can figure
it out.
In terms of formal semantics, this corresponds to properties whose objects
can denote strings OR other values. dc:creator comes to mind: I think the
dublin core folks would accept either of these:
aBook dc:creator "Paperback Writer" .
or
aBook dc:creator _:x .
_:x rdf:type Person .
_:x foaf:name "Paperback Writer" .
_:x foaf:mbox <mailto:writer@paperback.com> .
as legitimate uses for dc:creator.
#g
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Graham Klyne
<GK@NineByNine.org>
Received on Friday, 27 September 2002 12:25:16 UTC