- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 07:41:17 -0500 (EST)
- To: "'www-rdf-rules@w3.org'" <www-rdf-rules@w3.org>
Hi all This list (as yet not widely announced / publicised, in part due to the difficulty of nailing down a scope) is indeed for both RDF 'rules' and RDF 'query' discussions. The distinction is perhaps more easily made in terms of differing communities and expectations than in terms of these being crisply distinguishable technologies. We will have a mix of backgrounds and terminology here, which is something to be aware of as you read posts from others. EricP suggested some ideas common terminology, which was a useful way of opening up initial discussion. One way to get started on some detail might be for people to focus on what they've built, prototyped etc to date in this area using RDF. Setting aside for now the question of 'what is RDF _query_ versus _rules_', and swapping some brief summaries of what tools, techniques we've used for doing things like asking questions of an RDF database/service or representing and using inference rules over RDF content. We can worry about whether to call it a database or a knowledgebase, a query language or a logic system etc etc later. First, I'd love to know what people have been building... Anybody want to get us started? danbri -- mailto:danbri@w3.org http://www.w3.org/People/DanBri/
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