- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:22:29 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Rahul Singh <kingtiny@cs.cmu.edu>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org, Garret Wilson <garret@globalmentor.com>
Nothing wrong with the use of rdf:value in this example; rdf:value just
doesn't tell you anything in particular. The example might just as well be:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.ninebynine.org/2003/09/number#_10">
<eg:IsDivisibleBy>2</eg:IsDivisibleBy>
<eg:foobar
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/#integer">10</eg:foobar>
</rdf:Description>
There isn't anything in RDF that provides the same built-in semantics as
owl:sameAs. That's why there *is* owl:sameAs (and an OWL for it to go in).
--Frank
Sandro Hawke wrote:
>>>If I wanted to http://www.ninebynine.org/2003/09/number#_10 to refer
>>>to the resource represented by "10"^^xsd:integer
>>>
>><rdf:Description rdf:about="http://www.ninebynine.org/2003/09/number#_10">
>> <eg:IsDivisibleBy>2</eg:IsDivisibleBy>
>> <rdf:value
>>rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema/#integer">10</rdf:value>
>></rdf:Description>
>>
>
> You seem to be using rdf:value as if it were owl:sameAs, saying the
> number 10 has a value which is the number 10. That doesn't seem like
> a great use of rdf:value to me, although I do see its appeal. Am I
> misunderstanding? (I just checked over a few sources.... [1] [2]
> [3].)
>
> -- sandro
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#rdfvalue
> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-mt/#rdfValue
> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Dec/0082.html
> (this proposal appears to not have been adopted, but the
> discussion following it is interesting.)
>
>
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