rdfms-things-described-by-web-pages or something from Sandro Hawke on 2001-08-31 (www-rdf-comments@w3.org from July to September 2001) (original) (raw)

I'm looking on the issues list and not finding this. Sorry if I'm just missing it.

In http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/ section 3.2.1 is the example

================ The model for the sentence

  The students in course 6.001 are Amy, Tim, John, Mary, and Sue. 

is written in RDF/XML as

rdf:RDF <rdf:Description about="http://mycollege.edu/courses/6.001"> <s:students> rdf:Bag <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Amy"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Tim"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/John"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Mary"/> <rdf:li resource="http://mycollege.edu/students/Sue"/>

which seems to be saying that Amy is her web page. Even if she doesn't have a web page, RFC 2616 says that HTTP URIs denote "network data objects or services" (not people).

This came to my attention in Larry Masinter's duri/tbd draft [1], which points to this excerpt and says "RDF ... may already provide for the 'thing described by' indirection."

And it may: if the s:students relation is between the web page for a course and a bag of the web pages of the students in the course, then the example works. Without a schema for s:students we can't really tell. Presumably, the schema would tell us whether s:students was supposed to relate a course to a bag of students, or a web page to a bag of web pages.

-- sandro

[1] http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-dated-uri-00.txt

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