- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 00:04:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
A few of you (you know who you are!) replied offlist to my previous message on WebDav. Fwded below is one of my offlist replies; rather than reply similarly to each of the other folks who wrote direct back to me I've only time in next few days to send this one quick message to the list. I was asked by a few people what exactly needs doing. In brief, I think we need a comparison of the metadata / property models of RDF and WebDAV to be written down for discussion. I suspect one way to achieve this is for the few of you with experience of both RDF and WebDAV (however sketchy!) to send a quick mesg to the list. Then someone (possibly but hopefully not me ;-) can summarise and we can start to pull together a doc that might usefully be sent to the webdav list for discussion. Dan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- There are a number of things that need addressing. I'm on the WebDAV list and try to keep up with the broad drift of things, but lack concrete understanding of the spec. With another hat on I co-edit the Dublin Core in RDF draft (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/) and had some minimal contact with WebDAV folks about reflecting this into the WebDAV property model. Facilitating the representation of RDF vocabularies within WebDAV, and WebDAV properties within RDF query systems seems a useful target. As I understand things, WebDAV say that objects have URI-namable properties whose values may be simple strings or blobs of structured XML, whereas RDF says that objects have URI-namable properties whose values may be simple strings or other URI-named objects. The models feel close but different. What I'd hope for initially would be a short document that compared/contrasted the WebDAV and RDF approaches to describing the properties of Web resources. I suspect there may be some philosophical differences relating to the question of whether a 'resource' has one or multiple URIs for example, but without re-reading WebDAV I'm guessing. So -- does this sound feasible? A 'compare and contrast: RDF and WebDAV Property Models' document for discussion across both groups?
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