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RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re:

• To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>,"Michael Champion" <mc@x...>
• Subject: RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 13:26:20 -0700
• Cc: "XML Developers List" <xml-dev@l...>
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• Thread-topic: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)

> The basic idea of RDF that seems useful is naming things with 
> standard URIs. However, I simply don't see how the RDF syntax 

Actually, I agree with you.  The official syntax is lame, but the
fundamental concept of naming things with URIs is the key.  The value of
RDF is the data model; not the serialization syntax.

> improves on XML+namespaces for that, and XML+namespaces is so 
> much nicer a syntax than RDF.

Well, the big difference is that RDF is a "triples" data model, while
XML is hierarchy.  Setting aside the issues of how you *serialize* the
triples, it's inevitable that "triples" will win in these "semantic"
scenarios.  OSAF Chandler is based on "triples", as is Longhorn's WinFS.
Both are essentially "personal semantic web stores".  Triples+URIs is
how you bootstrap the "personal semantic web store" and make it
universal.

For a better syntax, maybe you would like TriX.

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