- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:21:14 -0500
- To: "Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Cc: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org>, "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>, "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com>
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Steven Pemberton wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:53:37 +0200, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> > wrote: >>> What I meant was, I am unsure of the value of being able to say >>> that a primary topic has a temporal dimension, if you can't say >>> that about anything else in RDF. >> >> There's a trick here. Choose your properties with care. >> >> The foaf:mbox property, for example, has built in temporal >> constraints. > > Well, recognising that it has a temporal dimension still doesn't let > you do anything about it. > >> Even though we can't decorate RDF instance data with triple-by- >> triple temporal annotations (and would we really want to?) > > I think not, and that is why I think the temporal part of ttdb: > doesn't answer sufficient a need. > > We could of course introduce properties > > wasPrimaryTopicOf > willBePrimaryTopicOf > shouldHaveBeenPrimaryTopicOf > > just to be on the safe side. Aaargh. No, please don't do that. Don't use tenses in anything that is going to get stored for a while and then taken out of storage. But maybe you were joking... I think we should prohibit irony from these discussions, the chances of being misunderstood are too great. One person's insanity is another person's neat idea. Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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