- From: Didier VILLEVALOIS <dvillevalois@techmetrix.net>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:11:15 +0200
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, Didier VILLEVALOIS <dvillevalois@techmetrix.net>
- Cc: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>, Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>, drager@bbn.com, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Hi Dan, I do agree the meaning of the import property is not 'yet' clear. I think the *perspective* concept that Jeff Heflin introduced in his thesis is a good representation of views over the semantic web. In fact, i can't see any reason to use something else than the namespace declaration just to refer to a term. (and that's what i do in my software) For me, *importation* would be more a kind of aknowledging of the model theory (meaning) implied by how this term is defined. What i suggest anyway is that we need a super-property for all properties that define links between documents. Maybe you'll find that rdfs:seeAlso or rdfs:isDefinedBy is sufficient but i need to refine their semantic. Didier. [Dan] > All the while 'imports' isn't in the core of RDF, people can > reasonably > claim they didn't know what it means, that it is just some utility > vocabulary. If we put it in the main specs, we'd need to be a > lot clearer > on what conclusions 'imports' allows us to draw about a > document and its > author/publisher.
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