RE: A simple question....

Stefan,

you raise a very interesting question. As I recall, it was actually at one
time discussed in the RDF working group.

I believe what you are suggesting is a deeper question than something that
has to do with RDF, and in the case of your example, relates to the
semantics of URL fragments of HTML files (i.e., what exactly is #myname in
this case? One point in the file, I suspect, since we do cannot address
"ranges").

Maybe we should think about attaching RDF annotations to HTML <SPAN>
elements...?

Regards,

	- Ora

> ----------
> From: 	EXT Stefan Decker
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 17, 1999 03:02
> To: 	www-rdf-interest@w3.org
> Subject: 	A simple question....
> 
> Hi,
> 
> a question and maybe an RDF 2.0 requirement ;-)
> 
> Lets say, i have the following HTML-code in my homepage
> (e.g. http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde ;-)
> 
> ...
> <center><A name="myname">Stefan Decker</A></center>
> ...
> 
> In which respect are the following RDF-snippets identical?
> 
> 1)
> 
>    <rdf:Description about="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde">
>        <s:Creator>Stefan Decker</s:Creator>
>      </rdf:Description>
>    </rdf:RDF>
> 
> 
> 2)
>    <rdf:Description about="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde">
>        <s:Creator
> resource="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/~sde#myname"/>
>      </rdf:Description>
>    </rdf:RDF>
> 
> 
> I know that they will produce different triples, but is there a way
> to guarantee, that an application behaves the same, regardless what it
> will get?
> 
> Background:
> We have created an extended WYSIWYG-HTML-Editor, which allows to semantic
> annotation of text. One simply marks the text and selects the
> class/attribute from an ontology. Semantic Markup is inserted into
> the HTML-text.
> However, the editor now supports the ontobroker-annotation language,
> but i would like to switch this to RDF (we worked on that concept
> before RDF was born...)
> 
> On the other side, i don't want to COPY the marked text from of the
> HTML-page,
> but would like to POINT to it. Otherwise if the HTML-page changes the
> metadata will be invalidated, and thats something i would like to
> avoid.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Stefan
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 17 November 1999 09:38:35 UTC