- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:19:11 -0400
- To: Jeff Heflin <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org
Here's a test case for rdf/daml inclusion:
I have two RDF files of instance data using ontology
O1. O1 is available on the web at two different addresses,
http://www.example.org/O1-a and
http://www.example.org/O1-b
File a.rdf imports O1-a, file b.rdf imports O1-b, but are otherwise
identical. The contents of O1-a and O1-b are identical.
Is the meaning of a.rdf and b.rdf supposed to be exactly the
same for all systems, or are applications allowed to hard-code
"http://www.example.org/O1-a", along with perhaps some human
understand gathered from a telephone conversation between the
programmer and the ontology creator?
My sense is that the string "http://www.example.org/O1-a" really is
special and can be hard-coded, along with ontology information which
is not machine-readable. This feels more scruffy but more workable.
-- sandro
Received on Friday, 26 April 2002 11:24:05 UTC