Re: f2f planning - Issue 63

An example for supporting this point: SKOS can be used to represent a
thesaurus in an RDF-based way. A thesaurus can be used e.g. to enhance
full-text search ("use all terms which are broader than my search term"). In
XQuery full text search, you are able to use the same kind of resource (a
thesaurus) with the same purpose (enhance search), but not necessarily
relying on RDF for thesaurus representation.

Best,

Felix

2009/11/23 Jonathan Rees <jar@creativecommons.org>

> I'm with you...  RDF per se has little to do with models of anything,
> any more than XML or ASCII does; it's a way of *expressing* models
> syntactically, which is the easy part.  (RDF semantics is also helpful
> discipline, but also brutally neutral.) You still have to create
> vocabularies (ontologies) that do what needs to be done.
>
> The consumer use cases are the interesting part of the story - linked
> data isn't much good if no one's using it - and I think they should be
> sought out and/or developed.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
> wrote:
> >> * Metadata model: what is the "data model" for typical metadata
> applications -
> >> the datatypes of the endpoints?
> >> The model is RDF.  We recommend that all metadate be encoded as RDF.
> >
> > RDF 'has' a data model -- things you can say. The question remains, I
> think,
> > whether it is useful, productive, and appropriate to allow "anything you
> can
> > say in RDF" to also be said in metadata.  I think the requirements for
> > metadata processing may mean that some relations have a much more
> restricted
> > domain.
> >
> >> Metadata in other formats e.g. RDDL, should be translatable into RDF, or
> >> encapsulated in a RDF wrapper.
> >
> > It's going the other way that is also important. Imagine an audio player
> > (WinAmp, iTunes,  Windows Media Player) in which you had not just title
> > and artist and duration, and so on, but allowed any of those to be
> > arbitrary RDF assertions. I think the media player would suffer if it
> weren't
> > possible to restrict the data model of "artist" to be arbitrary rather
> > than the dc:creator.
> >
> >
> >> * Metadata serialization: how can metadata be encoded in a
> representation system,
> >> be it RDF or something else
> >> Metadata is serialized using standard RDF serialization.
> >
> > Yes, RDF is one serialization.
> >
> >
> >> * Metadata vocabularies:  what are appropriate vocabularies for
> describing various
> >> media objects and network services? What is the process by which new
> vocabularies
> >> can or should be developed, described, extended or changed?
> >> There exist RDF vocabularies for several domains.  Others need to be
> created.
> >
> > I think it's easy to create vocabularies; the real difficulty is
> vocabulary
> > mapping and also the scalability of metadata when merging metadata from
> multiple
> > sources.
> >
> >> * Metadata linking: What are the various ways in which metadata can be
> associated
> >> with "data" or other resources? Link relationships, protocol elements,
> mechanisms
> >> for embedding metadata in various kinds of data?
> >> I think this is issue 62:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/62
> >
> > Issue 62 focuses on one way of linking; I don't think it is or should be
> the
> > only way.
> >
> > Larry
>
>