- From: Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:05:38 -0700
- To: <sean@mysterylights.com>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>
From: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> > Comments on http://infomesh.net/2002/notation3/ > > I have a serious problem with a document on N3 that starts out saying that > N3 is a ``shorthand non-XML serialization of RDF''. I view this statement > as wrong and, worse, completely misleading. Most uses of N3 that I have > seen are not RDF. True, but I think you are missing the big picture. RDF is great as a rigorously restrained language, and that is born out by comparing the reliability of the corpora of RDF/XML to the reliability of the corpora of N3. But let's not forget that both languages gain their usefulness from simple labeled directed graphs. Inevitably it is the labeled directed graphs that we are wanting to communicate. Restraints are good, but many times they needlessly get in the way of simple communication. Remember .... It *is* all about the graph ! Seth Russell http://robustai.net/sailor/
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