- From: Art Barstow <barstow@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:24:23 -0400
- To: Mick Bass <bass@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Mick, Just a couple of things you may want to address in: > <ftp://ftp.dspace.org/pub/doso/dspace-rdf.htm> before www-rdf-dspace is announced. In the section "How, specifically, should DSpace use RDF, both initially and longer-term?", it says: > Succeeding with this approach requires resolving the low-level > data typing issues that were consciously omitted from the initial > RDF-Schema spec, and expected to be drawn from work on XML-Schema. > Resolving this issue is a deliverable of the > current semantic web working group. Since there is no semantic web WG at the W3C it's not clear what WG you are referring to. The RDFCore WG, whose charter is: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCoreWGCharter has a somewhat related but different deliverable listed in its charter: [[ provide an account of the relationship between RDF and the XML family of technologies (particularly Schemas and Infoset/Query) ]] The Annotated DAML+OIL walk-thru: http://www.daml.org/2001/03/daml+oil-walkthru.html contains a section [the document seems to contain some broken NAME attributes so I can't give you a usable fragment] that describes a way to use XML schema datatypes in an DAML ontology. Does this address the issue you refer to above? Also, the document says: > This is similar to Peter Breton's existing proposal for a simple > O/R mapping layer within DSpace, except instead of the logical > definition being an XML-Schema (with perhaps only a subset of > XML-Schema features supported), this proposal considers the source > to RDF Schema. A link to Peter's proposal should be added. Art ---
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