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- From: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 15:05:49 +0000
I should point out a rather large error I made about dereferencing
namespaces in RDF. Contrary to my earlier statement, not *all* RDF systems
have dereferencable RDF Schemas at the end of their namespaces. For
example, Dublin Core and RSS have no such Schemas, only a prose definition
at the end of their namespaces.
Having said that, I expect more complex RDF systems, including ontologies,
to require the use of RDF Schemas to show how the RDF model works. I
suppose that an SW must dereference its namespaces to gather information
about its syntax, otherwise the "Web of Partial Understanding" becomes the
"Web of no Understanding" :-) This is backed up by the Axiomatic
publications that Simon unearthed.
Kindest Regards,
Sean B. Palmer
http://infomesh.net/sbp/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/ [ERT/GL/PF]
"Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics."
- Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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