RE: The semantic web

Hi,

Charles said:
As I understood it, RDF was meant to be read by machines, rather than by
people. What the syntax looks like is almost irrelevant in the contet of a
user interface that people are expected to use anyway.

Didier replies:
If this is the case, then why not use a more efficient format than XML? If
we are using an XML based framework only for platform portability purpose,
it is simply an overkill.

Why don't we say that RDF is a frame based notation? What is missing in the
framework is "templates" or "ontologies" or more precisely a framework
saying what a property mean. Without this, we have "records" or "frames"
syntax not semantics ;-)

Cheers
Didier PH Martin
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Received on Thursday, 13 April 2000 11:36:59 UTC