RE: Agenda for RDFCore WG Telecon 2003-05-11

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Jeremy Carroll [mailto:jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
> Sent: 09 May, 2003 15:19
> To: Dan Brickley; Brian McBride
> Cc: Jeremy Carroll; w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Agenda for RDFCore WG Telecon 2003-05-11
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> >
> > If they were just constraining the current RDF/XML syntax, it'd
> > be bearable. But
> > for this to be their legacy for all future syntaxes seems pretty
> > heavy, given
> > that the triples are implied.
> >
> 
> No - strong disagreement.
> 
> In OWL there are many triples which are redundant because 
> they are implied.
> However, it is hard to tell which triples are redundant and 
> which are not.
> End users need clear and simply guide lines. One such guideline is
> "everything must have a type".

Do you mean by that that "everything must have at least one explicitly
asserted type"?

If everything has at least one inferrable type, is that not enough?

Patrick

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 08:40:59 UTC