- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 10:06:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: danbri@w3.org
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org
From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org> Subject: Re: What is RDF Schema? [proposed closed] Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:53:16 -0400 > * Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> [2003-08-01 09:42-0400] > > Looks good. > > > > I notice however, that the first sentence of Appendix A is incorrect. The > > description is really an RDFS description. I do not believe that there is > > an ``RDF Core vocabulary'' and if there were, this would not be it. > > currently we have: > "An RDF description of the RDF Core vocabulary is given here in RDF/XML > serialization syntax." > > I'd accept that "An RDFS description of ..." would be more appropriate. > > Then the question of what we're describing. Currently we _do_ describe > both the RDF namespaces owned/managed by RDF Core, Sure, but where is ``RDF Core vocabulary'' defined as this vocabulary? I certainly don't see it in RDF Schema. If it is defined elsewhere, then you should point to that definition. The definition that sprang to my mind was of the ``core RDF vocabulary'', from RDF Semantics, which is very different. > ie. > http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# but also the older > http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# so our RDF/XML appendix > includes claims such as: > > [[ > <rdfs:Class > rdf:about="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Property"> > <rdfs:isDefinedBy > rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"/> > <rdfs:label>Property</rdfs:label> > <rdfs:comment>The class of RDF properties.</rdfs:comment> > <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource"/> > </rdfs:Class> > ]] > > I believe it is useful to present an integrated RDFS description of both > sets of classes and properties, since people can never remember which > lives where, and the rest of the RDFS spec also describes both. > > So question is how to describe this in Appendix A. How about this: > > "An RDF description of the RDF Core vocabulary is given here in RDF/XML > serialization syntax." > -> > "An RDFS description of the http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# > and http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# vocabularies is given here in > RDF/XML syntax." > > Kinda ugly, but perhaps less contentious? > > Dan Why not An RDFS description of the RDF vocabulary [point to appropriate place in RDF Semantics] and RDFS vocabulary [point to appropriate place in RDF Semantics] is given here in RDF/XML syntax. peter
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