- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:04:46 +0100
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@dormouse.cs.umd.edu>, Guus Schreiber <schreiber@swi.psy.uva.nl>
- Cc: RDF Core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>, Eric Miller <em@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Jim, Guus, RDFCore has an issue http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20030123-issues/#timbl-03 raised by TimBL http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-comments/2003JanMar/0586.html Basically this issue is that when we have a parseType="Collection" each the b-nodes that forms the backbone of the list has an (?bnode, rdf:type, rdf:List) triple. Tim's complaint is that these triples are unnecessary and would like them removed. I believe that RDFCore are sympathetic to removing them, but are aware that Owl currently relies on them. The semantics editor has stated that he is opposed to our removing them. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0273.html We also believe it would be technically possible for Owl not to depend on them, but this would require a change in the webont specs. Dan Connolly currently has an action to determine what it would cost to remove Owl's dependence on the presence of these triples. I am under some pressure from our syntax editor, for whom this is the last remaining issue, to get it resolved. I believe that a decision from WEBONT either that they are willing to make the necessary change that would allow us to remove these triples, or that they are not would swing the RDFCore decision and enable us to proceed. Would it be possible for WEBONT to consider whether they might remove their dependency on these triples? RDFCore would very much like to make a decision at this Friday's telecon. Would it be possible to provide guidance to RDFCore in that timeframe? Brian ps: rdfcore discussion can be found on the threads starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0262.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0365.html
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