- From: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Date: 2002年10月28日 14:23:29 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: seth@robustai.net, "www-rdf-comments@w3.org" <www-rdf-comments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <3DBD8EB1.C069E994@mitre.org>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > > On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 08:29 AM, Seth Russell wrote: > > The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for > > representing information on the Internet. > > What is "the Internet"? If I use RDF to transfer information over a > crossover Ethernet cable on Mars, is that information "on the > Internet"? How about: > > The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a language for representing > information. > > That's not really true, though. It's not a language, it's a format, but > really a framework. And it doesn't really represent information, it > encodes it. It certainly does! And I defy you to decode it! > > The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is framework for describing > resources. Great! What's the next sentence? [If I could get funding for this "sentence at a time" approach to writing our documents, I'd have steady income until I retire! Even worse: if Aaron could get funding for this approach, *he'd* have steady income until *he* retires! But then we'd probably both go crazy first; toss you for it?] --Frank -- Frank Manola The MITRE Corporation 202 Burlington Road, MS A345 Bedford, MA 01730-1420 mailto:fmanola@mitre.org voice: 781-271-8147 FAX: 781-271-8752
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