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As I cannot get to the challenge :), I will talk about the pre-challenge portion. I think syntax is only 1 of the problems with RDF - but definitely a problem. RPV makes syntax better, but not sure if it works.. Other problems with RDF as mentioned -- 1. Even if I know the "predicate", I have to look up and find out the predicate. 2. for RPV, where R and V are both URIs, there is a confusion between whether we should write RPV or VPR -- this will be a problem, probably the predicate explanation will have to include this, with examples.. Who can benefit from inferencing supported? - I believe domains where people do not mind doing this bit of extra work, provided they get lot of benefit. I think data (and not metadata) describing symptoms of diseases, and symptoms of symptoms etc in the medical domain from different parts of the world/different hospitals etc?? best, murali. Note; In RDF Schema, I am curious why subproperties do not talk anything about domain and range being subclasses.. To ensure that the logic stays in first-order? I am not sure if this will affect a lot, when do we need subproperties/subclasses in the first place?? Not in the application domains that I am thinking of?? On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Dave Beckett wrote: > On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:32:22 -0800, Ronald Bourret > <rpbourret@r...> wrote: >> Tim Bray wrote: >>> Just a reminder that the RDF.net challenge is still open: see >>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/21/RDFNet (you can skip >>> all the history and markup-pedantry and jump to the challenge itself, at >>> the bottom of that essay). -Tim >> >> I read the history and markup-pedantry and skipped the challenge :) > > <snip/> > > I read it all and decided XML couldn't even meet the challenge at that point > after 5 years of XML. > > Maybe, just *maybe* RSS with some aggregator (web based or otherwise) > would meet that, a year or so later, for XML. I wouldn't say it's a > brilliant XML > format - it's not even 1 format and you especially have to hold your nose > if you look at all the &-escaping and encoding issues. > > Dave
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