- From: pat hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 20:40:05 -0700
- To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org, dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk, gk@ninebynine.org
- Message-Id: <p06001a01bb5b6e05a5fb@[10.0.1.2]>
>From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk> >Subject: Re: [proposal to close] pfps-22,pfps-23: "reserved names in >abstract syntax" >Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:49:42 +0100 > >> On 2003年8月07日 07:36:28 -0400 (EDT) >> "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com> wrote: >> >> > Vocabulary 1: >> > >> > rdf:first rdf:rest >> > >> > Vocabulary 2: >> > >> > rdf:List rdf:nil >> > >> > What namespaces names can be used to identify these vocabularies? >> >> Identifying other sets of terms or comparing sets of terms, is not >> something I'm dealing with or need to. Try OWL :) >> >> The RDF Vocabulary is a particular set of terms (infinite since it has >> rdf:_n), neither of which is Vocabulary 1 or 2 above. So it isn't the >> RDF namespace name. >> >> But I'm telling you stuff you already know. Please explain the problem. >> >> Dave > >The problem is that vocabularies exist independently of namespace names. OK >Saying that a namespace name identifies a vocabulary, even the RDF and RDFS >vocabularies, is incorrect. Why? And why does this follow from the previous sentence? Not ALL vocabularies can be so identified, but that is not what is being said here. I see nothing wrong with saying that the namespace name 'rdf' identifies the rdfV vocabulary, for example. > The RDF vocabulary is not identified by a >namespace name or even by a namspace. It does not seem to me that this assertion is a matter of absolute or objective fact one way or the other, but that is it not an unreasonable claim or one likely to be misunderstood. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32501 (850)291 0667 cell phayes@ihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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