RE: RDFCore Update

Wolfgang asks:
[Brian McBride said:]
> >   o The model theory will be defined for RDF graphs, not n-triples.
>
> Why did you decide to define it for RDF graphs? Specifying the
> semantics on n-triples is probably closer to the usual first order
> logic formalisms (or Datalog), see e.g. our formalization of the
> O-Telos-RDF variant (comparable to RDFS),
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/2001Aug/0064.html).

Because n-triples is only one of possibly many serializations
of RDF graphs.

Ron Daniel Jr.
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Received on Thursday, 30 August 2001 12:52:37 UTC