- From: Sampo Syreeni <decoy@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:13:02 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>
- cc: RDFInterest <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Danny Ayers wrote: >I can't see how RDF could be practical without some mechanism for >inherited/shared metadata (you've got a 1000 documents with the same >author - do you need to specify this a 1000 times), but I'm thinking that >because this is so significant it must have been dealt with already - >seeAlso doesn't really seem adequate, I'm not sure of the history of >aboutEachPrefix, but surely there is already some mechanism in place? Hardly. Inheritance as a concept implies that we know the precise type of the document (e.g. that the document was authored by a specific person). Conveying this information via URI's, which is what RDF uses, of course, is heavy enough to make for near equality with explicit metadata. And rdf:aboutEachPrefix, on the other hand, is far to difficult to implement at the moment. It only works within the one-world assumption, which is generally difficult to maintain in the Web environment. Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy, mailto:decoy@iki.fi, gsm: +358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
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