- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 18:08:56 -0500
- To: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- CC: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>
Brian McBride wrote: > > Regarding issues: > > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-17 > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-18 > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-19 > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-20 > http://www.w3.org /2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#pfps-21 > > PROPOSE, as suggested by Patrick > > That the term 'namespace' be used when referring specifically to an XML > namespace, and that the term 'vocabulary' be used when referring to the > set of URIREF's defined by RDF and RDFS. > This principle is fine with me, but I suggest an amendment that says we use the term "vocabulary" when we're referring to sets of URIrefs defined by anybody for use in RDF triples, e.g. I'd talk about "example.com's vocabulary" in the Primer (and in RDF/XML we use the XML namespace mechanism to construct those URIrefs). --Frank -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-875
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