RE: RDF, OAI, and application within Libraries [4]

[Peter Breton]
I was specifically addressing the serialization into a straightforwardly
parsable format -- perhaps this is what you mean by "representation
agnostic"?
[wmj]
Thanks!
I wanted to draw our attention to fundamental difference between loss-less
transformation (format|representation-agnostic) and loss transformation
(displays | views).

Best

WMJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Breton [mailto:pbreton@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 6:54 AM
To: W.M. Jaworski; Peter Breton; Mick Bass
Cc: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Subject: RE: RDF, OAI, and application within Libraries [2]



> [Peter Breton]
> It seems to me that at least part of the problem seems to be that RDF is
> format-agnostic
> [wmj]
> (1) representation-agnostic
> (2) display (aka view) - agnostic
> (3) format-agnostic
>
> Are (1), (2) and (3) synonymous in this list?

I don't think so.

I was specifically addressing the serialization into a straightforwardly
parsable format -- perhaps this is what you mean by "representation
agnostic"?

Peter

Received on Thursday, 17 May 2001 20:45:18 UTC