Re: Cambridge Communique

To throw some cold water on all this ....

> RDF is a modelling formalism targetted at describing classes of
> 'resources', where resources (roughly) are things that might
> be identified with URIs, ie. everything.  Again, RDF isn't alone in
> this - lots of other XML applications describe stuff. 

Hmmm...I wonder what happens in cases where these said resources are
XML-Schema documents which use XML-Schema to represent their properties and
properties about themselves.

Yes, organized way of representing meta-data when the underlying data is not
well marked up (e.g., HTML documents) is a useful activity. One could argue
that RDF was invented for just this purpose. However, why can't I provide
the same description (perhaps in a less flexible or powerful way) using
XLink and XML-Schema based documents that describe the not well marked up
data.

IMHO, there is a trade off to be made here by developers and the Cambridge
communiqué really does not identify the issues in that trade off analysis
and address it head on.

Received on Friday, 12 November 1999 20:18:37 UTC