On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:52 PM, David Booth wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:09 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote:
On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Nathan wrote:
[ . . . ]
Surely all of the subjects as literals arguments can be countered
with 'walk round it', and further good practise could be aided by a
few simple notes on best practise for linked data etc.
I wholly agree. Allowing literals in subject position in RDF is a no-
brainer.
I agree, but at the W3C RDF Next Steps workshop over the weekend, I
was
surprised to find that there was substantial sentiment *against*
having
literals as subjects. A straw poll showed that of those at the
workshop, this is how people felt about having an RDF working group
charter include literals as subjects:
http://www.w3.org/2010/06/28-rdfn-minutes.html
Charter MUST include: 0
Charter SHOULD include: 1
Charter MAY include: 6
Charter MUST NOT include: 12
Readers, please note that this was a non-binding, informative STRAW
POLL
ONLY -- not a vote.
Pat, I wish you had been there. ;)
I have very mixed views on this, I have to say. Part of me wanted
badly to be present. But after reading the results of the straw poll,
part of me wants to completely forget about RDF, never think about an
ontology or a logic ever again, and go off and do something completely
different, like art or philosophy.
Pat
David
(BTW, it would also immediately solve the 'bugs in the RDF
rules' problem.) These arguments against it are nonsensical. The REAL
argument against it is that it will mess up OWL-DL, or at any rate it
*might* mess up OWL-DL.
The Description Logic police are still in charge:-)
Pat
Best,
Nathan
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