RDF Terminologicus from Graham Klyne on 2001-01-01 (www-rdf-interest@w3.org from January 2001) (original) (raw)

OK, here's my shot:

Web Resource: Anything that is identified by a URI [RRC2396].

RDF Resource: [See RDF M&S section 5] Note that an RDF resource is not necessarily a web resource, though any web resource can be an RDF resource. Consider: http://foo.com/#a and http://foo.com/#b name distinct RDF resources, but not distinct web resources.

RDF Statement, Statement: [See RDFM&S section 5]

RDF Description: [See RDFM&S] Construct containing representations of a number of RDF statements about a specific RDF resource, and possibly some additional statements.

Description [of]: (As opposed to RDF Description) Language or data structure providing information about some entity or concept.

Stand for: A labelled entity that is used in descriptions indicate some entity or concept.

Reification (of a statement): [See RDFM&S section 5] A resource that stands for the statement together with the four statements that describe the statement. In my opinion, a reification of a statement is not unique: there may be more than one reification of any given statement.

Representation: A data structure (abstract or concrete) that captures some essential properties of some entity or concept.

Representing [x]: Being a representation of [x] (see above)

Context: An environment within which some statements are taken to be true.

Quoting: A reference to a statement without necessarily making any assertion about its truth or falsity.

Stating: An assertion that some statement is true in some context. (or should that be: An assertion in some context that some statement is true. ?) NOTE: this assertion is a statement separate from the statement asserted to be true.

Model: (I've tried to stop using this term, since it has a quite specific meaning to logicians, that is not the same as what I would regard as its "natural" meaning.)

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Graham Klyne (GK@ACM.ORG)

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