RDF

Brian McBride

RDF

Resource Description Framework Issues


This page is a list of issues raised with RDF on the RDF Interest Group with pointers to various threads of discussion.

Model Issues

Syntax Issues

Can't have ID attribute and resource attribute on same property element.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Dec/0153.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jan/0015.html

Namespaces on attributes and lack thereof, e.g. rdf:about

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Apr/0108.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000May/0004.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0031.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/thread.html

namespace/URI mapping

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0037.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0053.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0061.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0062.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Aug/0004.html

must a parser create bags of reified statements for description elements?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Aug/0085.html

aboutEach on the object of a statement

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Aug/0138.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0264.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Dec/0002.html

subclassing containers

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0037.html

Use of ID= versus about=

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0024.html

Simpler triple based syntax

much earlier discussion as well
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0058.html

Parsing Containers

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Dec/0082.html

API Issues


API Convergence http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0151.html Removing part of a reification http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0209.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0220.html

Schema Issues


Is the namespace URI for a schema resolvable to a schema for the namespace? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Feb/0018.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000May/0152.html Semantics of Domain and Range constraints http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jun/0018.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0032.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0132.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0254.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0257.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0001.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0008.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0098.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Dec/0032.html Statement Constraints http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jun/0043.html Semantics of subproperty http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0032.html

FAQ Issues

What is the relationship between RDF schema and XML schema?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/1999Sep/0006.html

How should enumerated types be represented in RDF?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Feb/0018.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Sep/0225.html

responses to previous request for FAQ suggestions

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Apr/0007.html

Can XML Schema datatypes be used in RDF?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Feb/0026.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000May/0005.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Jul/0032.html

Can one constrain the types of members of a container

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Apr/0067.html

~http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Apr/0073.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Apr/0087.html

What is the correct mime type for an RDF document?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000May/0145.html

Including RDF in HTML documents

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Dec/0037.html

Higher Layers and Applications

RDF Query

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0089.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0048.html

Semantic Mail

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0076.html

Admin Issues


What mailing list should we have? http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0045.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0047.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Oct/0063.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Nov/0024.html


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ID's for reified statements

Anon Resources

Do models (collections of RDF statements) have a URI?

Unifying Literals and Resources

Typing Literals (see also using XML Schema types)

What is a resource?

Mechanism to declare two URI's equivalent

Representing lang attribute in the datamodel

aboutEach is in the syntax but not the model

aboutEachPrefix

lang= is not represented in the model

what does http://.../foo.rdf#bar identify?

Digest Algorithms

Meaning of Alt

URI References/MimeTypes and Resources

Partial Reification

rdf:subject with Literal

Are triples unique, statings, reification

Semantics of rdfs:subPropertyOf

Ability to nest RDF 'expressions'

Semantics for RDF(S)

Semantics for Containers

Clarify URI's of ordinal properties

Can't have ID attribute and resource attribute on same property element.

Namespaces on attributes and lack thereof, e.g. rdf:about

namespace/URI mapping

must a parser create bags of reified statements for description elements?

aboutEach on the object of a statement

subclassing containers

Use of ID= versus about=

Simpler triple based syntax

Parsing Containers

API Convergence

Removing part of a reification

Is the namespace URI for a schema resolvable to a schema for the namespace?

Semantics of Domain and Range constraints

Statement Constraints

Semantics of subproperty

What is the relationship between RDF schema and XML schema?

How should enumerated types be represented in RDF?

responses to previous request for FAQ suggestions

Can XML Schema datatypes be used in RDF?

Can one constrain the types of members of a container

What is the correct mime type for an RDF document?

Including RDF in HTML documents

RDF Query

Semantic Mail

What mailing list should we have?