- From: W. E. Perry <wperry@fiduciary.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 09:33:18 -0500
- To: xml-dev@xml.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Amen, Bro. Birbeck! May I add that RDF predication is the only mechanism we have for defining process (i.e., verbs, acting upon identified resources) in a Web-exchangeable way. If the 'semantic web' is about anything, it is about the exchange or communication of relationships or processes which turn out to be most efficiently defined by RDF triples. The *implementation* of those processes in, ultimately, running code, may have to be done in a different, idiosyncratic manner at each node, based on each node's unique role and point of view, but RDF-described resources supply the 'standard' definition which provides the semantic nexus of those nodes. Respectfully, Walter Perry XML SIG Leader NY Object Developers Group Mark Birbeck wrote: > With RDF *the web has no centre*. With XML the web is set of hierarchies > - albeit starting from your point of view, or my point of view, or > someone else's. It's a bit of a leap in the imagination when not only > your data is a set of linked resources (RDF), but the structural > definition of that data is too (RDFS)! But the power is amazing. > > Enough evangelising. > > Best regards, > > Mark > > *************************************************************************** > This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@xml.org&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev > List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html > ***************************************************************************
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