On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Story Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Linde, > > There is some work on GRDDLing atom. One of them is here > > https://sommer.dev.java.net/atom/ > > David Powell is working on an XSLT1 transform for another ontology.
Thanks Henry. I'll have to take a closer look at that, as well as I'm searching for an example of an atom:category scheme. > > The atom group as a whole tends not to be very interested in these > discussions, as they open up a painful history of years of debate that > started with very early versions of RSS, and a good deal of confusion and > misunderstanding all over. > > RDF is very powerful. So it is better to spend time working on solutions > that reveal that aspect of things. All the rest is GRDDLable. Yes, I can sympathize with the historic reasons. However I think maybe one has to limit the scope of Atom somewhere, and atom:category(ies) just intuitively seems as a not so good idea to me. - Erling > > Henry > > > On 17 Jun 2008, at 08:10, Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote: >> >> I don't understand what you mean by standardizing RDF with Atom. If >> someone is interested in using RDF inside Atom can't they just do so >> already? Or do you mean mapping the Atom model to the RDF data model? >> >> Looking at the GRRDL Primer specification it looks like it's a >> transformation mechanism of a source document to a RDF representation. Is >> there any showstopper from the RDF community to already create such >> specification for consuming Atom documents? >> >> More fundamentally my *personal* issue here is that RDF has chosen a >> top-down approach by saying "We needed a mechanism to enable meaningful >> consuming of heterogeneous resources" so they defined RDF and gradually >> offered simpler mechanisms to allow the profane to join the RDF world (like >> GRRDL Primer). Atom on the other hand has followed a bottom-up path and >> been about "Let's have the lowest entry barrier we can and gradually add >> more complex mechanisms if they are needed". But because the base format is >> well defined you can make an Atom document already meaningful on its own. > > -- Med vennlig hilsen Erling Wegger Linde
