Re: seeAlso
"Kevin A. Burton" <[email protected]>
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Andy Powell wrote: >On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Dan Brickley wrote: > > > >>* Julian Bond <julian_bond-/Fkc1E/MbsFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> [2003-07-23 08:00+0100] >> >> >>>One of the powerful ideas in FOAF is the widespread use of rdfs:seeAlso >>> >>>Could this be usefully applied in RSS? >>> >>> >>It can be used in any RDF-based format whenever you've mentioned >>something and want to reference more (typically machine-processable, RDF) >>info about it elsewhere in the Web. >> >> > >I assume that the semantics of seeAlso are pretty loose - i.e. you can use >it to point to anything, some more RDF, some XML, an HTML page, a PDF file >or whatever? I.e. in some cases you are getting something >machine-readable, in other cases you aren't. > >I have never understood why, in a semantically rich environment like RDF, >one would want to use such semantically fuzzy properties. Why not use a >more precise property like 'additionalRDF' (a sub-property of seeAlso) if >that is what you mean? > > That is the problem I try to solve with the mod_link spec for RSS 1.0. It is hard to use ad hoc URLs in a distributed system without knowing what the document represents. There are of course hacks to this system but if you don't have the media relationships "this if a FOAF file in RDF and in English" then it becomes hard to determine if you should use the resource. Kevin -- Help Support NewsMonster Development! Purchase NewsMonster PRO! http://www.newsmonster.org/download-pro.html Kevin A. Burton, Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 AIM - sfburtonator, Web - http://www.peerfear.org/ GPG fingerprint: 4D20 40A0 C734 307E C7B4 DCAA 0303 3AC5 BD9D 7C4D IRC - freenode.net #infoanarchy | #p2p-hackers | #newsmonster