RE: rdf as a base for other languages

> From: Brian McBride [mailto:bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com]
[...]
> It would seem that there are (at least) 2 approaches to creating that
> language.  One is to 'extend' RDF.  The other is to design a 
> new language
> with richer capabilities.  With the latter approach, ground facts are 
> represented by RDF.  Rules/Logic are represented by the logic 
> language (LL).
> Processors implement rules/logic expressed in LL operating on 
> ground facts represented in RDF.
> 
> LL of course, could be encoded in RDF, but that is not the 
> same thing as it 'being' RDF.

Brian, can I ask how you would encode such a language in RDF yet prevent it
from being RDF --- or, at least, being mis-interpreted as RDF by a
non-LL-aware agent?  I guess I'm taking issue with the 'of course' in the
above paragraph; I think that encoding process needs clarification.

		- Peter

Received on Monday, 4 June 2001 05:59:55 UTC