- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:56:57 +0000
- To: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
During the Boston meeting, Dan Connolly raised a number of issues with the current RDF specs. This message is to make sure they are recorded and to provide a source anchor for their inclusion in the issues list. As I recorded them, (Dan please correct/elaborate): o RDF is not just a data model. The RDF specs should define a semantics so that an RDF statement on the web is interpreted as an assertion of that statement such that its author would be responsible in law as if it had been published in, say, a newspaper. o There are gotchas in representing the current RDF model in a logical formalism. For example, a statement is defined as triple containing containing at least two, possibly three resources. Resources are not reasonable things to include in a triple. [Personally, I'm not clear why not, so I may have got this wrong.] o The current RDF terminology is inconsitent with the long established terminology used by logicians. For example, what RDF'er's call a 'model' is called an 'abstract syntax' by logicians. Logicians use the term model but for something quite different. o A statement with a parseType of 'Literal' has as its object an XML structure, not a simple string. For example, the first character of the literal <foo>bar</foo> is not '<'. Appologies to Dan if I have misrepresented any of these. Brian
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