- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:33:08 -0500
- To: Patrick Stickler <patrick.stickler@nokia.com>
- CC: ext Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, paul.downey@bt.com, ext John Boyer <JBoyer@PureEdge.com>, "'ht@inf.ed.ac.uk'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@intergraph.com>, derhoermi@gmx.net, www-tag@w3.org
Patrick Stickler wrote: > Rather RDDL, or rather, the idea of namespace documents, should just be > dropped. > Getting back a namespace document which identifies all of the versions > of all of > the vocabularies, schemas, ontologies, etc. employing terms from that > namespace > is useless. > > How is an application to know *which* version of *which* model to > apply in order to interpret the term in question? It can't, because > a given namespace is not tied to a specific version of a specific > model -- insofar as the specifications are concerned You're so focuses on ontologies and models and machine understanding that you've managed to completely miss the real point of RDDL. It has relatively little to do with machine understanding (though I don't think it's quite as useless in that arena as you do), but even if we grant that RDDL has no purpose for machine comprehension and processing, it still serves two important purposes very nicely: 1. It keeps the error logs from filling up with 404s. 2. It lets *people* learn something about the namespace, including the various versions of various vocabularies, schemas, ontologies, etc. employing terms from that namespace. It's not all about machines. In fact, RDDL was invented primarily because humans were having trouble with this stuff. Machine processing was an afterthought. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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