- From: Eric Hellman <eric@openly.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:57:52 -0500
- To: Mark Grossman <msg@geocast.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Has anyone used the reification features in RDF to do something useful like authority tracking, and if so, could you explain for the rest of us how it made your life easier?? The representation is clear but to extract this from an RDF model is not. XML has been very popular for just about everything, because a programmer can look at a problem and see that if an XML parser is used, all the yucky details such as encodings, comments, validation, tree construction and language tagging come for free. As a mere physicist, I need an example to see things like this At 11:25 AM -0800 2/25/00, Mark Grossman wrote: >I took the section on reification to be an example application, >albeit a particularly complicated one, that happens to require some >special pre-defined semantics. You can go a long way with RDF >without having to use reification. > > -- Mark > >Eric Hellman wrote: > >> >>The basic problem with the spec is that is assumes that the reader >>understands what reification is, and is generally conversant with the >>deep issues of knowledge representation. >> >... > >> >>Anyone who has listened to 4-year old talk about Pokemons can >>perceive that the human mind deals naturally with RDF-like models. >>The mind avoids reification like the plague, however, and a really >>strong case for it must be made to win over the practical >>implementers. >> >>Eric Eric Hellman Openly Informatics, Inc. http://www.openly.com/ 21st Century Information Infrastructure LinkBaton: Your Shortcuts to Information http://linkbaton.com/
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