Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jochen Wiedmann > <[email protected]> wrote: >> as you have probably noticed, I have created a new branch for >> experimenting with RAT. The reason for creating a branch was that I >> found RAT's way of emitting output plainly confusing, at least to me. >> I never fully understood the system with "subject", "predicate", and >> "object". > > AFAIK that comes from the RDF data model.
+1 > It's a pretty comprehensive > framework for expressing all sorts of metadata, but as you notice it > does require some higher level tools to answer questions like the ones > implied by the policy feature you mention. +1 in general, using semantics allows more complex policy problems to be solve (in particular, thinking about licensing families). the streaming RDF approach taken is RAT is not the right one, though. seemed like a reasonable design at the time but it adds complexity and it's not really reasonable to try to perform streaming logic. - robert
