Hello SMW users! Please take a few minutes to decide upon the future of SMW syntax. Short answers suffice.
---- Our increasing impression is that the distinction between Relations and Attributes in SMW is no longer the best solution. It was useful when ":=" still behaved mostly different from "::", but it seems that the growing number of types of attributes might as well include a type "wikipage" that makes them act like relations. This could simplify wiki syntax as well as explaining SMW to new users. So, dear SMW users, what do you think? (1) Should we merge Relations with Attributes by providing a new datatype, and by treating untyped attributes as relations by default (instead of rejecting them as done now)? Why?/Why not? (2) If only one remains, should we rather use the syntax "::" or ":=" for annotations? The syntax ":=" suggests a way of writing inverse relations in queries via "=:", but maybe this is not obvious enough to be a good idea. Which syntax looks more user-friendly in general? (3) Should we call the remaining semantic elements "Relations" or "Attributes"? (4) How would the type "wikipage" that is used for emulating relations be called? "Article", "Page", "Wikipage", "Link", ...? Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Markus -- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717
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