- From: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:38:31 +0000
- To: Bob MacGregor <macgregor@ISI.EDU>, seth@robustai.net, Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi Bob, With Pat leading the technical discussion, I'm just going to drop in a couple of minor process points here. At 13:41 09/01/2003 -0800, Bob MacGregor wrote: [...] >>Yes, the WG has decided, nodes of rdf:type rdf:Statement *are* statings, >>I think you guys should accept that and move on. > >I apologize for my ignorance on WG decisions; I missed this particular >one. I would appreciate someone mailing me a pointer to the published >decision. As a general rule, resolution of WG issues can be found from the WG Issues document. In this case the URL to appropriate section of that doc is: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-identity-of-statements There is also another issue which may be related to your concerns, that the WG postponed for consideration by a future WG: http://www.w3.org/2000/03/rdf-tracking/#rdfms-contexts The WG is now (I hope) very close to publishing its last call documents. If you remain unconvinced about the WG's decision, I suggest you make this comment again as a last call comment. The WG will consider that comment and any support it receives. A couple of other remarks: o there are two concepts - statements and statings and only one bit of vocabulary. The WG, for reasons that Pat has explained picked one for the existing vocabulary, and as Pat also mentioned, that does not preclude you, or anyone else, from defining new vocabulary for the missing concept. That is the sort of thing that could be worked out in the interest group, and possibly published as a W3C note. o I have an association with the Jena project, and being careful to keep my role in the WG distinct, I do know that the current Jena implementation of reification is an engineering compromise designed to meet the pragmatic needs of users. As WG co-chair, I'd encourage you to work with tool developers to explore how to meet your needs. Such practical experience will be invaluable input to a future WG considering the postponed issue. Brian
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