- From: ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:12:19 -0800
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>
I agree with Dan. Jonathan, I'm not sure why you object to using the term Semantic Web. Surely, it is now a well known term and a term whose use we want to encourage. Moreover, the alternative sentence formulations seem awkward and contrived. All the best, Ashok Dan Connolly wrote: > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 16:14 -0500, Jonathan Rees wrote: > [...] > >> Anyhow, below are the changes I suggest. >> > [...] > > I'm somewhat ambivalent; I could live with the > document either with or without most of these changes. > > I was pretty happy with them up to this point... > > >> ----- >> >> Section 5, last sentence: change >> >> integrate HTML documents into the Semantic Web, >> >> to >> >> provide triples that make HTML documents more self-describing, >> > > I never did like "triples"; it's certainly obscure > at best in this case. I kinda like "data", though > it doesn't capture the grounded-in-uri-space nature; > "linked data" perhaps, but perhaps that's still obscure. > > I could go with "logical assertions," or "formulas" but I wonder > if that's really much of an improvement over "Semantic Web". > > And I'm not sure these triples/formulas/whatever make the HTML documents > more *self*-describing; the terms in the logical assertions aren't > (typically) defined within the document; they're defined elsewhere > in the Web. These formulas make the data in the documents > grounded-in-the-Web, not self-describing. > > The rest of these changes I'm likewise somewhat uncomfortable with... > > >> ----- >> >> 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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