- From: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:14:10 -0500
- To: "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
Tracker, this is for ACTION-207. At the F2F I asserted that talking explicitly about the "Semantic Web" in the "Self-Describing Web" draft finding [1] did a disservice to both, and volunteered to prepare a set of edits that removed the phrase "Semantic Web" from the document. The disservice to the draft is that this Semantic Web thing is made to look like a sidecar on the document, and distracts from the idea that you can use RDF triples to enhance the "self-describing" nature of any document. After all, the goal of the document is to promote self-description, not the Semantic Web - the Semantic Web can take care of itself. The disservice to the Semantic Web is that the way the draft is written at present implies that the Semantic Web is a sidecar on the Web - the metaphor I used was "ghetto". The Semantic Web is made to sound like a little specialist area where people who like that sort of thing will isolate themselves doing their little thing. Anyhow, below are the changes I suggest. If no one agrees with me, I will not press the matter, and this will be OK since my comments will be preserved here in the mailing list archive. But I would ask that either a definition of "Semantic Web", or a reference to some source that does define it, be added to the document. I cannot provide such a definition or reference because I don't know exactly what was meant by the phrase as used in the draft. -Jonathan ----- Table of contents and four other occurrences in the body of the document: 5 RDF and the Self-Describing Semantic Web change to: 5 Using RDF for Self-Description [or "to Enhance Self-Description"] The point being that, as you say in the text, the purpose of RDF (in the context of this draft finding) is to enhance self-describingness, not just arbitrarily to join the apparently unrelated Semantic Web bandwagon. ----- Introduction, fifth bullet: change For integration with the Semantic Web, self-describing representations should convey RDF triples, either by embedding them ... to One way to enhance a document's self-describing nature is by providing RDF triples that convey or describe its content. These triples should be provided by embedding them ... ----- Introduction, just following the GPN: change how to publish self-describing Semantic Web data, to how to use RDF triples for self-description, ----- Last sentence of section 2: simply remove the two words "Semantic Web" in the following: RDF, OWL and GRDDL are among the additional core technologies that enable self-describing Semantic Web content. ----- Section 4.1, fifth bullet: Change New RDF properties and ontologies can be defined for the Semantic Web to New vocabularies and ontologies can be defined for RDF and OWL ----- Next to last sentence of section 4: Just remove the entire sentence "In this way, ..." as it adds nothing. ----- Section 5, paragraph 3, sentence 2: Replace For the self-describing Semantic Web, the algorithm is extended to achieve a more particular goal: with An extension to the algorithm achieves a more particular goal: (or "achieves an additional goal") ----- Section 5 GPN: replace to the self-describing Semantic Web. with to the goal of self-description. ----- Section 5, last sentence: change integrate HTML documents into the Semantic Web, to provide triples that make HTML documents more self-describing, ----- Beginning of 5.1: change Semantic Web statements to logical assertions or "triples" if you find "logical assertions" too vague or grandiose. Change The following example illustrates how RDFa can integrate HTML into the self-describing Semantic Web: to The following example illustrates how RDFa can be used to create self-describing HTML: (or "HTML documents") ----- Section 5, paragraph beginning "Even though": change This document conveys as RDF a set of semantic Web statements about to This document conveys a set of RDF statements about (or "triples" instead of "statements") Next paragraph: in An RDFa-enabled user agent can extract these triples and use them to help Mary work with the data they contain, or to integrate with other Semantic Web information. change "Semantic Web information" to "sets of triples". Next paragraph: in Semantic Web triples are inherently self-describing. replace "Semantic Web" with "RDF". ----- GPN at the very end of sention 5.2: change GRDDL should be used to integrate XML documents into the self-describing Semantic Web. to GRDDL should be used to enhance an XML document's self-describing nature. (that's not great - would be happy to work on wording if there's interest) ----- After these changes one occurrence of "Semantic Web" should remain. This reference I find unobjectionable. ----- [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/selfDescribingDocuments-2008-12-03.html
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