- From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:21:26 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Jonathan Borden <jborden@mediaone.net>
- cc: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, RDF interest group <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, srn <srn@coolheads.com>
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Jonathan Borden wrote: > From Steve and Michel's excellent presentation at the RDFIG F2F, I think > that perhaps the most fruitful integration between topic maps and RDF is not > in the area of syntaxes (do we really need yet another syntax :-) but rather > for this _exact_ type of processing, that is how to 'merge' URIs > representing anonymous resources when we have discovered that we are really > talking about the same thing. Right, and this is maybe a (tiny) argument why anonymous resources should remain anonymous: you can merge two nodes and don't have to decide which URI you want to refer to them with. > What would be really useful (to me) would be an integration of the topic map > processing model into RDF and this would perhaps be best accomplished at or > aside the level of DAML+x > > -Jonthan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk I shave with Occam's Razor.
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