- From: R.V.Guha <guha@guha.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:46:40 -0800
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- CC: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, www-rdf-logic@w3.org, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
Sandro,
Just to set the record straight. No, RDF was not hatched
as just a metadata format. It was a simple data model which
could be used for a wide range of *instance* data. See [1].
This infatuation with reducing everything to RDF is at best
amusing.
guha
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-MCF-XML/
Sandro Hawke wrote:
>
> Simpler for some applications, certainly. RDF was hatched as a
> metadata format, however, and I'm concerned that some key metadata
> applications wont work this way. The semantic challenges of reference
> loops come naturally with the web, whether or not we use RDF. (This
> point is discussed more in [5] and [6].)
>
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