- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:59:08 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com>, John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Technical Architecture Group WG <www-tag@w3.org>, Susie Stephens <susie.stephens@gmail.com>
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 16:20 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: > >We could then have the Uniform Anything Identifier and the Anything > >Description Framework. > > Uniform Rigid Identifier (since they are supposed > to be like proper names, 'attached to' their sole > denotations in some way; the philosophical term > is 'rigid designator'; > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_designator). > Just a suggestion to save the acronym. > > And well, yes, RDF has to be what it is, but > that's just a matter of history :-) Actually, the game of keeping the acronym but changing the elaboration can work there too: Relational Data Format, or the like. ;-) actually, only 1/2 ;-) -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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