- From: Renato Iannella <renato@dstc.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 11:40:24 +1000
- To: Ken Laskey <kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
--On 11/11/99 10:48 AM -0500 Ken Laskey wrote:
> Here is another opinion of the relationship. Imagine an XML Schema
> that defines the "hard" metadata for a book, e.g. author, title,
> ISBN. These are immutable properties of the book. Now, the New York
> Times does a review of the book which creates "assertions" which are
> not hard facts but still related information. The connection of
> these assertions to the book would be through RDF. RDF might also be
> used by various booksellers to make assertions about the price they
> are individually charging or possibly special offers about the book.
I think this highlights the possible confusion between XML and RDF
Schemas. If I want to describe my Books - should I use XML or RDF
Schema? Or Both? If I choose one over the other, what would I be
"missing" out on?
This is what (personally) I would have preferred to see out of
the "Cambridge Communique".
Cheers... Renato
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Principal Research Scientist -> http://www.dstc.edu.au/
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