- From: Hammond, Tony (ELSLON) <T.Hammond@elsevier.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:06:39 +0100
- To: 'Frank Manola' <fmanola@acm.org>
- Cc: 'Brian McBride' <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
Hi Frank: > Finally, there was a question about "whether the Primer actually cares > if the applications it discusses are generally useful". I'm not > entirely sure how to interpret this comment. Part of the process for > deciding what went in there was based simply on who was willing to > contribute. More generally, it was hoped that the applications (which > are often rather domain-specific) that were described would suggest > ideas to people about how they might use RDF in other domains. I should clarify that I did not in any way intend "useful" to refer to one schema being better than another, just that there be a schema, so that the RDF classes and properties could be married to a URI architecture (schema or ontology, if you will), whether RDFS or OWL - otherwise just looks like plain XML to me. (Except of course that the XML elements can then be variously differentiated by category - class and property - based on the RDF data model.) Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. Tony
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