[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

RDF-Schema (was Re: Why validate?)

• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:17:51 -0500 (EST)

Michael Erdmann writes:

 > In Robins mail about the semantic level of XML as well as what
 > David and Tim write about the inadequacy of DTD to represent
 > meaning, I missed any references to RDF/RDF-Schema (BTW a REC and a
 > PR of W3C), that ---as I understand--- exactly are aimed at
 > providing a formal, ontological, shareable semantics in the world
 > of XML.

Or, you could argue that RDF-Schema simply defines a different kind of
structure -- instead of saying what elements may contain, it says what
classes properties may appear in.  It's the same thing, then, but in a
more specific problem domain (the object world).

That said, I'm a big RDF-Schema fan -- it's quite readable, and I'm
finding some serious interest in both RDF and RDF-Schema out there in
the business world.  I'd very much like to see RDF-Schema go to REC,
even though it's missing some things I think I need.

 > Or do I got something completely wrong. 
 > 
 > Or is XML-DEV not the right place to argue in favor of RDF/RDFS?

This is the best place.  There's also an rdf-dev list, but nobody
posts to it.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson                 david@m...
           http://www.megginson.com/

xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i...
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: RDF-Schema (was Re: Why validate?)
    • From: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@b...>

• References:
  • Re: Why validate? (was Re: Parser compliance)
    • From: Robin Cover <robin@i...>

• Prev by Date: RE: Do SGML and XML co-exist?
• Next by Date: RE: Clarification on "Burnt by MSXML.DLL"
• Previous by thread: Re: Why validate? (was Re: Parser compliance)
• Next by thread: Re: RDF-Schema (was Re: Why validate?)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread