[Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>] Re: [RDF] Re: Statements/Reified statements

[Jonas Liljegren]

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>>>Jonas Liljegren said:
> The hard thing here is that this is a work in progress.  Many things
> are only partly thought out.  Wraf is *very* big.  Wraf is not
> finished until the semantic web is done. ;-)

Yeah yeah, that means never, right?

> Another thing is that the implementations will maby change in order to
> acommodate the consensus of the list.  It's time consuming to describe
> things that will probably be changed.

Sure implementations change, but what about where you are now?

> One of the things I will use Wraf fore is as a document system.  I
> would like to write the documentation in Wraf itself. ;-) 

Beware of catch-22; I had that same problem with describing the
parameters to the storage system for models.  I nearly described the
storage as a model, in which case you could never create one, since
then you would have had to store a model in order to use it and ha to
use a model in order to create a store.

> 
> But ok... I will take the time to at least insert references. (I
> should have done that the the first time.)  And I was planning on
> write a terminology index anyway...

That would be great.  How about your answers to these:

  A resource is ..

  A statement is ..

  A model is ...

  I use this terminology
    A: [B]-C->[D] (E) 
  to mean ... 
  where A, B, C, D, E are ...

Maybe you can then just cite such a document on your RDF-IG postings
via a URI and update it incrementally when you change your mind? :-)

It also would be more generally useful for the RDF community to see
what implementers were actually doing with the stuff the RDF model
provides and where they differ.

> (Please write to the Wraf list.  It feels like I'm talking to a stone wall.)

I could ask something like the above questions to you publically on
the list if you want?

Dave


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