RE: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-13 Thread Michael Schneider
-Original Message- From: semantic-web-requ...@w3.org [mailto:semantic-web-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Davis Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 5:53 PM To: Dan Brickley Cc: Jiří Procházka; Toby Inkster; Michael Schneider; Linked Data community; Semantic Web; Pat Hayes Subject: Re: RDF

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Henry Story
On 8 Jul 2010, at 22:06, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Toby Inkster t...@g5n.co.uk wrote: Without knowing the definition of

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Bernhard Schandl
Hi, I agree with Pat in that case, that it would just be easier not to put restrictions in the abstract rdf syntax at all, instead of complicating things all over the place. There are pragmatic reasons why sentences such as http://bblfish.net/#hjs name Henry . are not going to be

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Jul 2010, at 09:29, Bernhard Schandl wrote: Hi, I agree with Pat in that case, that it would just be easier not to put restrictions in the abstract rdf syntax at all, instead of complicating things all over the place. There are pragmatic reasons why sentences such as

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Jul 2010, at 11:42, Jakub Kotowski wrote: Henry Story schrieb: On 9 Jul 2010, at 09:29, Bernhard Schandl wrote: Hi, I agree with Pat in that case, that it would just be easier not to put restrictions in the abstract rdf syntax at all, instead of complicating things all over the

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Jakub Kotowski
Henry Story schrieb: On 9 Jul 2010, at 11:42, Jakub Kotowski wrote: Henry Story schrieb: On 9 Jul 2010, at 09:29, Bernhard Schandl wrote: Hi, I agree with Pat in that case, that it would just be easier not to put restrictions in the abstract rdf syntax at all, instead of complicating

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-09 Thread Henry Story
On 9 Jul 2010, at 13:25, Jakub Kotowski wrote: Henry Story wrote: No need then for any hijacking, that's just such a 70ies thing [1]. You could just follow your nose by dereferencing the namespace, or the literal type to get the meaning. We'd be back to linked data, but now with

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-08 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 7, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:11:19 -0500 Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: The world doesn't have facts like that in it. Classes and properties are intellectual constructs, not the stuff of reality. Hell, if a particle can be a wave, then surely a class

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-08 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Toby Inkster t...@g5n.co.uk wrote: Without knowing the definition of foaf:Person, it's difficult to conclude that foaf:Person is not a property. However, even without knowing the definition of a literal, it

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-08 Thread Toby Inkster
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:16:06 -0500 Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: I would veto this option. To do this would be a lot more work than not doing it; and it would greatly complicate the semantic specification, which would have to keep track of this 'meaninglessness'. Why would tools need to

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-08 Thread Reto Bachmann-Gmuer
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: On Jul 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Toby Inkster t...@g5n.co.uk wrote: Without knowing the definition of foaf:Person, it's difficult to conclude that foaf:Person is not a

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-08 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 8, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:16:06 -0500 Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: I would veto this option. To do this would be a lot more work than not doing it; and it would greatly complicate the semantic specification, which would have to keep track of

Re: RDF Aggregation Operators (Was: RDF Extensibility)

2010-07-08 Thread David Booth
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 14:43 -0400, Adrian Walker wrote: Hi Pat, You wrote... ..how do we know, given some RDF, what semantic extensions are appropriately to be used when interpreting it? That is a VERY good question. This is something that RDF2 could most usefully tackle,... A fairly

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-07 Thread Toby Inkster
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:11:19 -0500 Pat Hayes pha...@ihmc.us wrote: The world doesn't have facts like that in it. Classes and properties are intellectual constructs, not the stuff of reality. Hell, if a particle can be a wave, then surely a class can be a property. Anyway, RDF doesn't make

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-07 Thread Jiří Procházka
On 07/06/2010 11:05 PM, Pat Hayes wrote: On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Jiří Procházka wrote: [snipped] In case of a) I don't have cleared up my thoughts yet, but generally I would like to know: How are semantic extensions to work together in automated system? Well, the semantics always

RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Jiří Procházka
a rdf:Property . Why do you think so? I believe it is valid RDF and even valid under RDFS semantic extension. Maybe OWL says something about disjointness of RDF properties and classes URI can be many things. I think there are issues about RDF extensibility which haven't been solved and they concern

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Dan Brickley
2010/7/6 Jiří Procházka oji...@gmail.com: On 07/06/2010 03:35 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:03:19 +0200 Michael Schneider schn...@fzi.de wrote: So, if     :s lit :o . must not have a semantic meaning, what about     lit rdf:type rdf:Property . ? As, according to what

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Ian Davis
2010/7/6 Dan Brickley dan...@danbri.org: 2010/7/6 Jiří Procházka oji...@gmail.com: It would have a meaning. It would just be a false statement. The same as the following is a false statement:       foaf:Person a rdf:Property . Why do you think so? I believe it is valid RDF and even valid

RE: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Michael Schneider
Dan Brickley wrote: 2010/7/6 Jiří Procházka oji...@gmail.com: On 07/06/2010 03:35 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: It would have a meaning. It would just be a false statement. The same as the following is a false statement:       foaf:Person a rdf:Property . Why do you think so? I believe it is

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Pat Hayes
is a false statement: foaf:Person a rdf:Property . Why do you think so? I believe it is valid RDF and even valid under RDFS semantic extension. Maybe OWL says something about disjointness of RDF properties and classes URI can be many things. I think there are issues about RDF

Re: RDF Extensibility

2010-07-06 Thread Pat Hayes
On Jul 6, 2010, at 10:03 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: 2010/7/6 Jiří Procházka oji...@gmail.com: On 07/06/2010 03:35 PM, Toby Inkster wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:03:19 +0200 Michael Schneider schn...@fzi.de wrote: So, if :s lit :o . must not have a semantic meaning, what about lit